Jeannetta Gaffigan: You need a Lenovo ThinkPad X61T with a Centrino 2 Duo 1.8GHz processor, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 200GB SATA-II 2.5" HDD, Intel 965GM Crestline Integrated Graphics. You need the Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 operating system with these programs: The GIMP, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Adobe Flash Player, and VLC. You need a Verizon Wireless SMT5800 Smartphone for EvDO connectivity, a Lexmark X5150 All-In-One printer, and a Linksys WRT610N wireless router, and a Buffalo 500GB Portable External USB Hard Drive for storage.No, just kidding. Seriously, don't use any of that.Just to make sure I understand your situation:*You are taking a basic class on computing.*You have a bad grade in the class right now.*You have a project due, or an opportunity to earn some extra credit, that might result in you passing the class.*Your project is due tomorrow, and presumably you have not started it -- else you would be asking more specific questions to receive advice on certain portions of the assi! gnment.*You are using extremely obnoxious Internet slang to ask others to do your project for you on a publicly-visible website, one which your professor might be surfing right now. Oh, and you appear to have a RL photo in your profile.Your question is incoherent, too general, and the begging is particularly annoying. Why should anyone want to help you, even if we were unable to understand what exactly it is that you want?Also, why are you just starting this paper tonight? It makes much more sense to spend a few days working on it little by little, doesn't it?Now, of course, I'm not placing all of the blame on you, rest assured. It is fairly likely that the quality of the education you receive in this class is quite low, and for that I deeply apologize. I wish the public school system in the U.S. were in a better state than it is.It looks like the purpose of this assignment, if there is a purpose at all, is to get you thinking about the way hardware and software relate.Prob! ably the most revealing fact you need to know is this: when yo! u are thinking about buying a computer, you should check to make sure that the hardware you purchase is able to run the software you want to run.This is more or less common sense, and I am sure you can understand why this is true. Every software program requires certain features to be available in the hardware it runs on.For example, if you want to render a high resolution 3d representation of the Earth, and be able to zoom in and out without any lag, you will probably need a high-end graphics card. If you want to crunch really big numbers, like scientists do, you might need an especially fast processor -- or MANY processors.The second important fact is that hardware becomes obsolete over time. What I considered "modern" in 2005 is now low-end, at best. In a period of only 3 or so years, the latest computing hardware has nearly doubled in most measurable capacities: number of CPU cores, amount of RAM, amount of disk space, and the speed of the graphics card. This is because! of something called Moore's Law, which you can read about here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_lawThe *real* answer to all of the questions you asked in capital letters is that "it depends on what you want to do with your computer". Unless you have thousands of dollars to waste on very high-end hardware, a sensible computer shopper will find hardware that suits their needs, and will continue to do so for a period of 1 - 3 years. If you spend too much money, you will have more resources than you need, and may end up wasting electricity for components that need lots of power. If you spend too little money, you will not have hardware fast enough to run the programs you want to run.It is a big challenge, even for technologists (people who keep current with technology), to keep informed on what exact specifications constitute "up to date" at any given time. One thing is true, though: any hardware specifications you put in your paper will probably be obsolete within 3 or 4! years.You should use this knowledge, coupled with the advice in your t! extbook, to think about what would make a good computer upgrade to the one you currently have. You will need to know terminology such as:*Number of processor cores*Processor speed, in MHz or GHz*Amount of RAM, in MB or GB*Amount of graphics RAM (VRAM) in MB or GB*Network card speed in terms of MB/s or GB/s (per second)*Amount of disk space in GB or TBThere are many other, more detailed specifications to measure a computer's performance, features or capacities. But these are the most important. If you do not understand the implications of each of these specifications already, then it is no wonder that you are failing the class. The point of the class is to teach you something about computers. I would recommend that you take some initiative and try to learn what is being taught.In my sources, please find a few links to sites that sel...Show more
Ambrose Mumma: Do you need a printer? that is hardware.Headphone Joystick to play games MicrophoneScannerWebcamKeyboardSoftwar! e Educational SoftwareApplication SoftwareOperating Systems windows, Mac, etcMedia Players Peripheral devicesZip driveCD-ROMInternal modem 512K Ram, 5MB HDD...Show more
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