HARDWARE

HARDWARE

1. Internal components

   • Motherboard
     • Main circuit board of a computer
     • Main circuit board you find when you open a computer.
     • All the other computer components are connected to the motherboard.
     • The motherboard is what makes everything in your computer work together.
     • Chipset: controls the data flow between the microprocessor and the rest of components
   • Video card
     • a circuit board that generates video
   • Rom and Ram
     • Internal memory
   • Storage
     • the hard drive
   • Sound card
     • a circuit board that deals with the input and output of the sound

2. External components

   • Monitor
   • Keyboard
   • Mouse
   • Printer
   • Scanner
   • Webcam
   • Touch
   • Screen
   • Microphone
   • Speakers

3. DEFINITION

   • physical parts of a computer and related devices (all the parts you can physically touch).

4. SOFTWARE

   • Computer’s logical support Operating system, program, applications
   • STRUCTURE OF INFORMATION
     • HARD DISK
       • boot sector, one or more partitions, max 1 extended partition per disk
     • WINDOWS
       • Control Panel - Systems and Security - Create and format disk partitions
     • FILE SYSTEM
       • the way files are stored, organised and managed
   • FILES AND FOLDERS
     • block of data that is stored under one name
     • information in the directory can be reorganised using preferences set by the user – e.g. the user could reorganise files into date order.
   • MOBILE DEVICES
     • SPECIFIC
       • processor sensors connectivity screen energy consumption
     • Mobile applications
       • apps
     • OPERATING SYSTEM
       • Android, iOS, Windows 10