Pc/Laptop factors

Factors to consider when purchasing a P.C. or Laptop

The factors you will need to consider whether you are buying a P.C. or a laptop will vary depending on if you’re buying it for home use or business two. For example you will need more processing power, R.A.M. and more memory on a P.C. than you would on a laptop. I say this because laptops are usually used on the go instead of a stationary work station at home or in the work place. Another key factor to consider will be portability.

Personal Computer (P.C.)

For buying a home computer the main aspects you would need to consider would be to do with screen size, processing power, R.A.M. hard drive space memory and how up to date it would be and if you would need certain things that it supplies. There would be no point in buying a gaming personal computer if you’re going to use it for Microsoft word and iTunes. It would be unnecessary and a waste of money. For this course if I was buying a personal computer the main aspects I would consider would be R.A.M., memory and screen size. I would need at least 4-5 GB of ram in order for it to run smoothly, I would need this as windows vista uses approximately one GB of R.A.M. in order to run at any given time. I would need at least 500 GB of memory space on the hard drive as I would be using it to store a lot of text files as well as music files which is roughly 20 GB. But as it is also a home pc I wouldn’t be the only person in my household using it. There would need to be enough memory on the hard drive to hold enough documents and files for five people. I would also need a minimum monitor size of approx. 17 inches as I find this would be the minimum size monitor I would feel comfortable working behind. Any smaller I’ve found causes discomfort for my eyes as some text appears too small. The ideal size would be 18-20 inches approx. I would also require Microsoft office as default software as I need to use Microsoft word for assignments and office to view power points at home from college.

Laptop

For buying a personal laptop I would need to consider a lot more aspects as if it was a laptop I would be the main user of it and it would be brought in to college and home. It would need to be very lightweight but also have good processing power for its size as I would be taking it out my bag and need it fully loaded up quickly. For this I would need roughly 3 GB of R.A.M. for the same reason as the pc as vista uses approx. 1 GB of R.A.M. at any time. Screen size would also be a big aspect of choosing a laptop as the bigger the screen the more difficult it would be to carry in and out of college and also the bigger the laptop would be the more expensive it would be this would also contribute to the weight of the laptop. The ideal screen size would be no bigger than 14 inches.  As the keyboard is proportional to the screen size and I would prefer a bigger keyboard. It would be essential that it could cold boot extremely quickly and be very lightweight so it would not be difficult bringing it in and out of college. As for the hard drive I would not need much memory. I would ask for a basic deal of about 100-250 GB as text files struggle to take up more than 1 MB and as there wouldn’t even be enough text files to take up even a quarter of a GB. I would purchase an external hard drive to ensure I have a constant backup of all my files, music and college assignments and to manage overflow if necessary.

Netbook

The purchase of a netbook is also an option in the purchase of a personal computer/laptop for my course. I do feel that of the three this would be the most logical option and they are all extremely lightweight. The only thing that would prevent me from purchasing a netbook would be that it would be considered a secondary laptop. I would only use it in college and if I had the option of using a P.C. or a bigger laptop at home I would so I would prefer to purchase a laptop as I would use it a lot more. As well as its downside there are a lot of upsides to netbooks. For example they are extremely lightweight and versatile would be incredibly easy to bring in and out of college and even be able to use on the go for example on the bus. If I was to purchase a netbook I would go for a basic model. Roughly about 2 GB of R.A.M. would suffice and 100 GB of memory. As for the screen size I would go for about 10” as I would only be using it for a short amount of time.

The Most interesting phone of 2011

Quite a lot of people seem to have thought that the Nokia N9 is the most interesting phone of 2011. In this article the writer goes on to talk of  how he/she would take the N9 over the much anticipated iPhone 5 purely because he/she is curious about the phone ,admitting that its programmes might not be as advanced as that of the iPhone of Samsung Galaxy. The phone is run on a system called “MeeGo OS 1.2;” which is an open source operating system.

It is said that this “MeeGo OS 1.2;” system isn’t quite as advanced as that of the other androids but it had one unique feature which is tri-screening. This enables the user to have navigation, and app and another open and viewable on the same page at any one time. Another reason why this phone would be interesting is that it seems to have the best quality camera of all of the smartphones. It has an 8 megapixel camera with a “Carl Zeiss” lens. Which is so good that “you’ll forget that you even had a stand-alone digital camera 99% of the time”.

The article ends with saying that the nokia N9 might not be the most advanced from on the market but it’s certainly made out to be the most interesting of all the androids.

Comments:

I found this article very interesting for a number of reasons. My first would be that I had no idea about this phone and form reading this article I am definitely interested about the Nokia N9 and would love to try one out. My second reason for finding this interesting would be that I would find this tri-screen operating system very useful if I had this phone. For you could be using an app to check the weather, your email, and be  being told when to take a turn right from the navigation which I think would be very useful rather than having to switch between all three over and over.

Overall I think this phone is very appealing and as a non-android owner I don’t know much about the phones but I feel that from this also with a little more looking into the phone specs I would definitely consider purchase of this phone. Here is a link of the webpage.
http://technorati.com/technology/article/nokia-n9-most-interesting-phone-of/

Timline of the internet.

1957-1981

It began with the launch of sputnik which was the first USSR satellite and goes on to talk of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) beginning to use email in 1972. A year later the term “Internet” comes into use and years later Comet, the first email corporation is created and launched. In 1981 Al Gore created the term “The Information Superhighway”

1982- 1994

The term “World Wide Web” is brought into use. The first web server on the internet was the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC). Shortly after, there was the creation of the domain names (examples follow) - .com, .org, & .net etc…1993 had the most technological advances of all the years. The internet took off now having the very first commercial web browser. Internet is also differentiated from the World Wide Web as the internet is computer network consisting of more computer networks and the World Wide Web is also a computer network but consisting of websites.

1995-1997

There are one million internet users which will triple by 1998 and also the internet email service “Yahoo” is created.

1998-2005

The internet celebrated its 30^th anniversary and traffic of the internet is doubling every 100 days. Wikipedia is launched and 544 million people are now using the internet. Facebook & YouTube are founded and launched.

2006-2011

Twitter is founded in San Francisco and there is not 92 Million websites. By the 40^th anniversary of the internet there are nearly 1.9 billion internet users and in 2011 Facebook and twitter are the main communication of the internet.

Comments:

I found this website very useful and also interesting. I thought that some of the events listen were not exactly significant for example I didn’t feel it was necessary to need to know where “Twitter” originated from. There were a lot of facts that were very surprising as I did not know that Al Gore created the term “The Information Superhighway”. I was also unaware of the amount of internet users around the world. The timeline says that it reached 1.9billion in 2010 going up 0.3billion from the previous year so I can safely assume that in 2011 going into 2012 there will be approximately 2.6billion web users. This fact really interested me.

Overall I found the timeline very interesting and definitely something worth reading to brush up on your computer history. Here is a link to this webpage. http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/home/internet_timeline

My delayed Introduction

Hello! Welcome to my delayed introduction!
Unfortunately this was not the first thing I posted but I suppose better late than never!
What I plan to talk about on this blog will be just various things to videos I found funny to music I like, Classes I enjoyed to classes I hated and so on and so forth!
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Cyberpsychology Essays!

Hey everyone, Good news, finally finished off my cyberpsychology (or cyberpsych to all you psychology savvy people) essays! Absolutely chuffed! Finished the first one over a week and a half ago but really struggled reminiscing to think up a topic for the second. Isn’t CMC just great?
Any who to anyone to who reads this I hope you’re doing well on the essays (if you in my course) if not ... emm... Hey!
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