CIS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Macbook Air, Optical Mouse, Thermal Printing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1000
• Professor: Jing Yu Zhu

Document Summary

Inside your computer tower, or just underneath the keyboard of your laptop, is your motherboard, cpu, ram, graphics card, hard drives, optical drive, and ports to connect peripherals. All of these pieces of hardware work together to provide you with your computer experience: what do computers understand, computers work in the language of binary, which consists completely of 0s and 1s. 1 is called a bit, and 8 bits is called a byte. For instance, the word hello can be represented as: 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 (in acsii) Understand your computer: what is a computer, what a computer does and how its function make it such a fantastic and useful machine. What exactly is a computer: a computer is a data processing device that performs four major functions: Two basic designs of computers are laptop and desktop computers. There are also netbooks, tablet computers, and ultrabooks.