TYPES AND COMPONENTS OF A COMPUTER

TYPES AND COMPONENTS OF A COMPUTER

1. HARDWARE

   • Physical components of a computer.
   • OUTPUT
     • MONITOR
     • PRINTER
     • HEADPHONE
     • SPEAKERS
   • INPUT
     • KEYBOARD
     • WEBCAM
     • SCANNER
     • MOUSE
     • A computer hardware equipmentused to provide information to the system.
   • INTERNAL COMPUTER HARDWARE
     • ROM
     • RAM
     • INTERNAL HARD DISK DRIVE
     • MOTHERBOARD
     • SOUND CARD
     • VIDEO CARD
   • STORAGE DEVICES
     • HDD
     • SMART MEDIA
     • USB MEMORY STICKS

2. SOFTWARE

   • The programs that control the computer system
   • System Software
     • OPERATIVE SYSTEM
       • GUI
       • CLI
     • COMPILER
     • INKER
     • DEVICE DRIVE
     • UTILITIES
   • Application Software
     • WORD PROCESSOR
     • SPREADSHEET
     • DATABASE
     • APPS
     • VIDEO EDITING
     • GRAPHICS
     • Programs that give the user the capacity to do specific tasks.

3. TYPE OF COMPUTERS

   • PC/DESKTOP COMPUTER
     • ADVANTAGES: Power consumption is not critical because desktop computers have a better dissipation.
     • DISADVANTAGES: Since desktop computers are not portable, you will have problems when passing information, and tranportating it will be complicated since all his components are separate.
   • LAPTOP COMPUTER
     • ADVANTAGE: The laptops take full advantage of WI-FI, and because they are portable it will be able to link to any multimedia system.
     • DISADVANTAGES: A power consumption could damage different hardware components of the laptop, also life battery is limited, so you will need to carry with a heavy adaptor.
   • TABLETS
     • ADVANTAGES: Tablets are very fast to switch on compared with laptops, also their touch-screen make them easier to use.
     • DISADVANTAGES: They have limited uses, they cannot run too many applications and formats that a laptop can do; therefore, use them for trasspasing files could be a headache.
   • SMARTPHONES
     • ADVANTAGE: Smartphones can be use in any place since they can connect to WI-Fi and mobile phone networks.
     • DISADVANTAGES: Data transfer is very slow compare with a PC or a laptop, also smartphone's memory is too limited.
   • MAINFRAME
     • MAIN FEATURES: They can several CPUs, and because of his fast proccesors they could suppport different operating systems and a huge amount of data.