CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Expresscard, Gddr3 Sdram, Dialog Box

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Chapter 6: understanding and assessing hardware: evaluating your system. Predicts that the number of transistors inside a cpu will increase so fast that the cpu capacity will double every 18 months. The capacity of dram (dynamic random access memory) memory chips increase about 60% each year. Hard drives increase storage capacity by 50% each year. If you plan to edit digital video files, or play games that require high video frame rates and have amazing soundtracks you will want a computer with more memory, upgrade video card, and a good set of speakers. Colleges offer full semester classes, online modules, weekend courses. Step by step demonstrations offered by mrexcel, photoshop quicktips. Netbook: notebook with small keyboard and screen, and limited processing power. Notebook is best choice if you want a portable computer. Desktops are a better value than notebooks in terms of computing power gained for your dollar. Light notebooks typically have a 17 screen or smaller.