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- Write your own description of what the term information systems hardware means.
- What is the impact of Moore’s Law on the various hardware components described in this chapter?
- Write a summary of one of the items linked to in the “Integrated Computing” section.
- Explain why the personal computer is now considered a commodity.
- The CPU can also be thought of as the of the computer.
- List the following in increasing order (slowest to fastest): megahertz, kilohertz, gigahertz.
- What is the bus of a computer?
- Name two differences between RAM and a hard disk.
- What are the advantages of solid-state drives over hard disks?
- How heavy was the first commercially successful portable computer?
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