Thursday, October 16, 2008

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Our website URL

We have created and finished our website.
We used piczo, to put it together...
Come and check out our website.. it's just one mouse click away!

http://ChristineMarina.piczo.com

ENJOY!!

Multimedia devices assignment!

Marina and i had got an ist assighment today and was told that we had to use piczo or pageflakes or anything other site that creates sites.Marina and i deciced to test out the sites for expermenting we made a pageflakes and piczo pages and we came to the conclution of using piczo.


When we had choosen our site we then choose our topics which are the following:

- CPU
- RAM
- Piracy and Copyright-
-DVD/CD
-Handheld
-Graphic cards


We started workng on cpu and are planning to finish the others in time, we are working together as they say two brains better as one :)


In todays lesson we go working on our ist assighment and finshed up cpu and worked on the rest copyright and priacy .dvd/cd, hanld devices.We had turns doing each topic and managed to get it quicker that way.


In todays lesson we worked on our last 2 topics and managed to finish before the lesson ended.We ahve completed our ist assighment.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

UMPC's are Business-class device for enterprise users. They run a "heavy" OS like Vista. They are optimized for office-use applications like Excel, Word, etc.

MID's are Consumer-class lifestyle devices. They runs a 'lightweight" OS with quick startup like Linux. They are Optimized for things like media playback and web surfing.

Both devices are very similar to eachother.

ASUSeePC 901 One of the leading contenders in the netbook market due to its long battery life, smaller sizing and huge community. Especially interesting for mobile users due to its size.

CPU type
Intel Atom (Diamondville)

CPU speed
1600 Mhz

Graphics
Intel GMA 950

OS
Windows XP Home

Display Size
8.9" 1024 X 600

RAM
1024 MB

Flash
12000 M


Battery capacity
49 (W/hr)


Weight
1140g


Size (w/h/d mm)
226/175/39 mm



Physical Interfaces
Ethernet 10/100
VGA
MIC-in
Line-out
USB2.0 (x3)
SDcardslot Built-in camera.

ASUS Eee Pc Surf


CPU type
Intel Atom (Diamondville)

CPU speed
1600 Mhz

Graphics
Intel GMA 950

OS
Linux Xandros

Display Size
8.9" 1024 X 600

RAM
1024 MB

Flash
8000 MB

Battery capacity
36 (W/hr)

Weight
990g

Size (w/h/d mm)
225/170/33mm


Physical Interfaces
Ethernet 10/100
VGA
MIC-in
Line-out
USB2.0 (x3)
SD card slot
Built in camera

Acer Aspire One


CPU type
Intel Atom (Diamondville)

CPU speed
1600 Mhz

Graphics
Intel GMA 950

OS
Linux Linpus Lite

Display Size
8.9" 1024 X 600

Display Type
LED b/l

RAM
512 MB

Flash
8000 MB

Battery capacity
26 (W/hr)

Weight
950g

Size (w/h/d mm)
248/170/29 mm

Physical Interfaces
Line-out
MIC-in
Multi-format card reader
VGA
USB2.0 (x3)
Ethernet 10/100

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Bits && Bytes =)

1.What is a Digit
A digit is a single place that can hold numerical values between 0 and 9. Digits are normally combined together in groups to create larger numbers.

2.“normal” counting numbers used in everyday life are based on what sequence of numbers?
They are based on the binary number system

3. Where does the word bit originate from?
The word bit is a shortening of the words "Binary digIT."

4.Binary numbers don’t use base 10. What base do they use? What digits are available in base 2? They use base 2. Digits avaliable in base 2 are increasing powers of 2.

5. What is a byte?
Bits are rarely seen alone in computers. They are almost always bundled together into 8-bit collections, and these collections are called bytes.

6.How many bytes in a kilo, mega, giga and tera bytes.
kilo= 1,024
mega= 1,048,576
giga= 1,073,741,824
tera= 1,099,511,627,776

7.Complete the following conversions;
1000 Mb = 1Gb
500 Gb = 512 000Mb
5000 Kb = 5Mb

Monday, August 18, 2008

Mobile internet Device (MID)

What are the benefits this processor offers mobile devices?

It provides low power and is designed specifically for a new wave of Mobile Internet Devices and simple, low-cost PC's.

enables the latest Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), and another new category of devices for the internet called netbooks and nettops.

Delivers the power and performance you need for full Internet capabilities.
Gives you a new range of power-efficient devices with excellent performance enabled by all new hafnium-infused 45nm high-k silicon technology.

Increases energy efficiency in smaller more compact designs with a thermal design power specification ranging from less than 1W to 2.5 watts for mobile devices.

Extend battery life in select devices with an incredibly low idle and average power allowing the device to stay powered on while also conserving energy.

Dual Core Processors

What is a Dual core prossesor?
Dual-core refers to a CPU that includes two complete execution cores per physical processorIt combines two processors and their caches and cache controllers onto a single integrated circuit(silicon chip).
What is Multitasking?
Multitasking is the ability of an operating system to run more than one program simultaneously, allowing the user to easily switch and share information between applications.

How do they work together?
Since each core has its own cache, the operating system has sufficient resources to handle intensive tasks in parallel, which provides a noticeable improvement to multitasking.