When you go online or look at ads for electronics stores, youwill probably be able to find a that will be just rightfor you. There are many types and styles available on themarket. You can find a that will take up a whole roomin your house, while you can also find a that will fitinto the palm of your hand! At a business, you will probablyfind a mainframe computer. In your workplace or at home you willnormally find a desktop computer. In the airport, the personsitting next to you could be working on a laptop orhandheld computer. So, when you find yourself looking for acomputer for your own personal use, you know you will have a lotto choose from.

When looking for a home computer, nowadays called a personalcomputer, you will find it is made up of several parts. Therewill be a box sitting on your desk, black, gray or beige incolor. This is your actual computer, containing everything fromthe microprocessor to the memory, the storage to theinput/output devices. You can't work with just the "computer"alone, though. There are accessories that go along with yourcomputer like the monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers. Otherattachments you might find are printers and digital videocameras.

If you want to buy a computer, it is good to know that there aretwo separate categories of computers: PCs and Macs.

- A PC is a modeled after components and standardscreated by the IBM



Company. A rather high percentage of allpersonal computers, shown at somewhere over 90%, are PCs. Somecompanies that sell PC computers are IBM, Dell, Compac, andGateway.

- A Mac is a personal made by the AppleCompany. MacIntosh was its most popular style of computerseveral years ago. The new IMacs are popular with die-hard Macfans, although not as many people today use Mac computers asused to.

A personal in your home can be used for many things,including word processing chores, personal and business letterwriting, financial records and planning, internet searching,photography, and many other types of functions like graphicdesign and publishing. For the younger crowd, a personalcomputer can also be used to listen to music, watch movies orplay detailed video games.

The basic elements of your personal that you choose,like the processor, amount of RAM, floppy or CD-Rom disk drives,hard disk drive, sound card, speakers, monitor, modem andgraphics card will be determined by what kind of useryou plan to be. Heavy users of complex programs will need muchmore "stuff" on their than the average user.Once you've determined how much of everything you need, you willbe able to calculate an average cost for the you want.

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