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Monitors - Video Card

 Processes info to send to monitor


 Amount of video memory may speed up
graphic intensive programs
» 32 megs –general purpose
» 128 or more megs – graphic intensive use

 AGP port can speed up graphics


 3D accelerator card improves graphics
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Monitor - Buying Hints

 17” or larger
 .28 dot pitch or better
 32 or more megs of memory on
video card
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Printers

 Laser

 Ink Jet

 Dot Matrix
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Printers - Laser

 Works similar to a copy machine


» Color printers available but more expensive

 Fast, quite, with excellent quality

 More expensive to buy and operate

 Some units scan, photocopy, and print


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Printers - Ink Jet

 Squirts small jet of ink onto paper to


form characters
 Replaced dot matrix
 Quiet
 Does good job on color
 Good quality and reliability
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Printers - Dot Matrix

 Strikes pins against ribbon to print

 Comes in 9 and 24 pin

 Once very popular

 Now replaced by ink jet and laser


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Printers - Speed

 Measured in pages per minute (PPM)

 Laser printers range from 20-45 ppm

» Color printing is slower


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Printers - Quality of Print

 One measure is dots per inch (DPI)


» 300 dpi for general purpose uses
» 600 dpi for higher quality
» 1200 dpi for photo quality
 May have different vertical and
horizontal resolution
» 600 x 300
 Other factors can affect quality
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Basic Processing Cycle

Central Internal
Data
Processing Memory
Bus
Unit
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How Information Is Stored

 Memory consist of switches which can


be either on or off - Off=0 On=1
 Each on/off switch is called a bit
 Eight bits make up a byte
 It takes one byte to store a character
» Character can be letter, space, punctuation,
etc.
» ASCII code used
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Other Memory Terms

 Byte is eight bits

 Kilobyte (KB) is approx. 1,000 bytes

 Megabyte (MB) is approx. 1million bytes

 Gigabyte (GB) is approx. 1 billion bytes


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Central Processing Unit

 Also called CPU, processor or

microprocessor

 Is the “brains” of the computer

 Performs all computer operations


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CPU - IBM COMPATIBLES

 Many made by company called Intel

 Also made by AMD


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Pentium class processors

 Needed to run most current software


 Intel – Celeron or Pentium IV
 AMD
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CPU - Clock Speed

 Number of “cycles” per second


computer can operate
 Measured in megahertz (MHz)
 One MHz = 1 million cycles per second
 One gigahertz(GHz)=1 billion cycles
 Current speeds 2-4 GHz
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CPU - Misc.

 Performance also affected by speed of


data bus
» 400-800 MHz on most current systems
 Cache can increase speed
» Stores data you will likely need next in an
area that has faster access
» Both memory cache and disk cache used
» Should be 512 K or better
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CPU - Buying Hints

 Minimum of Pentium IV or AMD Athlon

 Minimum of 2 GHz clock speed

 Minimum of 512K of cache


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Internal Memory - RAM

 RAM - Random Access Memory


» CPU can access any location as quickly as any
other
 Can not only read current info but also write
new info
 Very important in determining capabilities of
the computer system
 Computer should have at least 256 megs -
512 preferred (can add to later)
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Internal Memory - ROM

 ROM - Read Only Memory


» Can read info Stored in ROM
» Can not write new info into ROM

 Used for “internal workings” of computer


 Buyer is not very concerned with ROM
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External Memory

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