When you buy a Computer What Do You Look for?

RAM -

ROM -

Hard Drive -

DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory.A type of computer memory that is stored in capacitors on a chip and requires a refresh signal to be sent to it periodically.Most computers have DRAM chips, because they provide a lot of memory at a low cost.

Megahertz -

Gigahertz - A unit of frequency equal to one billion (109) hertz. Also called gigacycle, kilomegacycle.

Modem Short for Modulator/Demodulator, a modem is a device that allows remote computers to communicate, to transmit and receive data using telephone lines.

DVD - Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc.An optical storage medium which has greater capacity and bandwidth than CD.DVDs can be used for multimedia and data storage.A DVD has the capacity to store a full-length film with up to 133 minutes of high quality video in MPEG-2 format, plus audio.

Drive Bays - DVD, CD’s, Zip

Cache -store of things, or the place where they are kept - memory cache -- ((computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics)

LCD Panel -

What does the best computer on the market have on it? Search IBM, Dell and Gateway or Apple to find the answer.

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