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Laptop:
A Laptop is a portable computer, one advantage to this is that you can easily take it anywhere and not have trouble with transport. A laptop is harder to upgrade than a desktop. Smart Phone: A smart phone is similar to a computer because they both have similar functions. Like downloading Apps, Touch Screen and Internet Access. Raspberry Pi: Raspberry Pi are single board computers. The Raspberry pi is known as an ideal learning tool amongst school aged children. These are easy to setup and use. These are some of the features that are supported: USB Ports, HDMI Ports, Micro SD slots Etc. Tablet: The apps are like trials you don’t get the full app when downloading it. A tablet is like an even smaller laptop that is very portable. A designer could use this for drawing by using a stylus on a drawing/painting app. Desktop: These take up a lot of room and are hard to carry around but have amazing specs and are very powerful. E.g. say you bought a Laptop for £1000 you could get way better specs on a desktop than a Laptop for the price of £1000. Desktops are easier to upgrade. Main Frame/ Super Computer: These are massive computers that are used by massive companies who invest in a lot of money. These super computers and used to process loads of data or even to send money. These super computers send millions of data/instructions in just 1 second. Supercomputers have a big role to do sending out information like weather forecasting, climate research, and oil and gas exploration. |