I have mentioned through this blog that people love cheap. I have noticed that society likes quality and speed of computers to a point. When a low price tag is thrown in front of them, they don't care what the thing is they will just take it. If someone through a bag of dirt in their cart, they don't care they will ask how much is it.
I have noticed this since I work in this type of business. On black Friday (the Friday after Thanksgiving) many people lined up at the doors waiting for those craptastic deals on computers. While outside I noticed this. The first person in line wanted the computers I was selling, she already had tickets for three other computers, so now she had five tickets total for these computers.
I do understand these computers that were door busters are supposed to be cheap, but they are not the computers that will meet their needs. The computers are near the bottom of the totem pole. Some computers have the base operating system which would be Vista Home Basic. I totally recommend Vista Home Premium at least. This system will run better. With Home Basic these will be equipped with 512MB of RAM, which is just enough for this OS to operate but not well. The Home Premium computers will have 1024MB or 1GB of RAM which will again be just enough. The processor will also make the difference on how the computer will perform.
Yet, people don't ask questions on that day, they don't care they just see that sticker price and run with it. (On to the next store they say). So when the recipients receive the gift under that Christmas tree, they will have to take grandma's gift card back to the store to have it beefed up or the computer changed out to meet their needs.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
OS Part 2
I am sure you all have read my post on OS's. Well I forgot, yes I know you can't believe it, to mention MAC OS. The latest and greatest is Leopard my Macintosh. Which Mac always name their new OS's with animal names. Why they do this I have no clue. Well not all their OS's had this kind of name. They started with the Mac OS X (10) which was first called a Tiger or something. From what Wikipeida stated they picked big cats names for their OS. Why this is so I guess it is because there for a long while Apple (Mac) wasn't doing so well. Microsoft had a huge lead in the OS war, if you want to call it that. I would suspect that they picked these big names because they wanted to make the consumers think of Mac revamping the OS and that it was a new reason why to change from it's old OS or from anything running Windows.
With seeing both systems run, I think that Microsoft might have something to look out for......MAC. This is because the new windows has so many compatibility issues. I mention again that I work in the business and see so many people wanting the operating system of yesteryear to be loaded on their pc's yes I am talking about Windows XP. From my last post you understand why. Mac on the other hand doesn't have as many problems, only if you try to run old Mac OS 9 programs on the new Leopard. This is fine because can many of the old programs or games that ran on Windows 3.1 or 95 run even on XP....Nope. People don't want to change if they don't have to. (Case in point I learned Visual Basic then moved to Java programing I don't like it. This is because I was used to VB.) But when a new OS hits the market they expect it to work with their current software.
With seeing both systems run, I think that Microsoft might have something to look out for......MAC. This is because the new windows has so many compatibility issues. I mention again that I work in the business and see so many people wanting the operating system of yesteryear to be loaded on their pc's yes I am talking about Windows XP. From my last post you understand why. Mac on the other hand doesn't have as many problems, only if you try to run old Mac OS 9 programs on the new Leopard. This is fine because can many of the old programs or games that ran on Windows 3.1 or 95 run even on XP....Nope. People don't want to change if they don't have to. (Case in point I learned Visual Basic then moved to Java programing I don't like it. This is because I was used to VB.) But when a new OS hits the market they expect it to work with their current software.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Processors
Have you wondered what actually does the most work inside that box we call a computer? Ah yes the microprocessor or as we call it now just the processor. Without going into a lot of nerd talk, the processor commutates a lot of algorithms so we as the users don't have to. (Thank the Lord Above)
The processors that are out on the market now are far from the ones of yesteryear. When the operating system Windows XP was still in use, computers didn't need the processing speed as they do now. When this OS was in use consumers usually saw only a single processor that ran at 1.8GHZ, gigahertz. Now don't get me wrong that was fast at the time. (Heck I remember when I was younger that 1o0mhz, megahertz was blazing fast.) This was the era of the Intel Pentium 1 and the Pentium 2 chips.
Now with the OS, Windows Vista, we need just a little more processing speed. With more and more applications at hand we need more power, if you will, to aid us in our daily computing.
Their are many chips that are out there today, I am only going to focus on Intel not AMD. Some Intel chips that are out at this present time are: Pentium Daul Core, Pentium Quad Core, Celeron M, Centrino Dual Core. These processors are very different. Above I mentioned about the single processor at 1.8GHZ, here the dual core processors are just that dual processing. They can process the information twice the single processor speed and is one chip. The Pentium series runs hot and uses more power than a single core and runs fast even if you walk away from the computer. The Pentium Quad Core will run as if it was four processors stuck in one chip. Which in layman's terms it will run two times as fast at a dual core. That is a whopping four times as fast as processors of yesteryear. The Celeron M uses a lot of power and runs almost as slow as the processors of yesteryear. The chip that I recommend is the Centrino Dual Core because in a laptop it uses a lot less power and runs fast, but slows down if you aren't using it.
Wow! I know that sounds like nerd talk, but I hope this helps you all in your computer buying for the next three months. The reason I say three months is because the computers by then will be obsolete aka. a paper weight.
The processors that are out on the market now are far from the ones of yesteryear. When the operating system Windows XP was still in use, computers didn't need the processing speed as they do now. When this OS was in use consumers usually saw only a single processor that ran at 1.8GHZ, gigahertz. Now don't get me wrong that was fast at the time. (Heck I remember when I was younger that 1o0mhz, megahertz was blazing fast.) This was the era of the Intel Pentium 1 and the Pentium 2 chips.
Now with the OS, Windows Vista, we need just a little more processing speed. With more and more applications at hand we need more power, if you will, to aid us in our daily computing.
Their are many chips that are out there today, I am only going to focus on Intel not AMD. Some Intel chips that are out at this present time are: Pentium Daul Core, Pentium Quad Core, Celeron M, Centrino Dual Core. These processors are very different. Above I mentioned about the single processor at 1.8GHZ, here the dual core processors are just that dual processing. They can process the information twice the single processor speed and is one chip. The Pentium series runs hot and uses more power than a single core and runs fast even if you walk away from the computer. The Pentium Quad Core will run as if it was four processors stuck in one chip. Which in layman's terms it will run two times as fast at a dual core. That is a whopping four times as fast as processors of yesteryear. The Celeron M uses a lot of power and runs almost as slow as the processors of yesteryear. The chip that I recommend is the Centrino Dual Core because in a laptop it uses a lot less power and runs fast, but slows down if you aren't using it.
Wow! I know that sounds like nerd talk, but I hope this helps you all in your computer buying for the next three months. The reason I say three months is because the computers by then will be obsolete aka. a paper weight.
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