Talking Geek
I have found that a lot of people are bothered by computers, because of all the new terms you have to learn to function around a computer.
Bytes, Interface, Memory, CPU, Megahertz, Resolution, and Nanoseconds, just to name a few!
It can be mind boggling for anyone who is not technically oriented.
Here’s my attempt to make things a bit easier…..
First rule of computers is that most of the computer issues are based on SIZE and SPEED.
Bigger is always better! But you don’t always need Bigger.
For instance, you are a home user who will only use your computer to surf the Internet and once in a while maybe write a letter or two and balance your checkbook. Odds are that a good basic low end computer will do you just fine.
A 21 Inch screen has become the standard.
A 13 Gigabyte Hard Drive is more than enough.
An Athelon or Pentium processor
Whereas if you are a business user:
A 21 Inch Screen
A 300 Gigabyte Hard Drive
A Dual Core Pentium processor
Now it’s time to confuse you a bit……if you are a home user that deals with photographs a lot or music,you will want the more powerful machine and the bigger hard drive. Pictures and music take a lot of power to process and a lot of hard drive space.
There’s one of those words: Gigabyte.
Think of bytes this way, bytes are like a jar of beans. Each byte is a bean. Add more bytes and you get more beans. Bytes are used to describe memory in a computer. The memory for doing a task and the memory for storing the results of the task. ie: The picture or the song.
For instance you might see a computer specification like this:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 processor
4GB DDR3 memory
500GB hard drive
512MB NVIDIA GeForce G210 graphics card
4GB DDR3 is the memory to do the task
500 GB is the size of the storage space
512 MB is a separate video memory for helping do video tasks.
Helps your screen show things faster
A MB or Megabyte is bigger than a Byte, a GB or Gigabyte is bigger than a MB and a TB or TeraByte is bigger than all the others……
Byte – (MB)Megabyte – (GB)Gigabyte – (TB)Terabyte.