[access-uk] Re: power of a computer
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:30:37 +0100
Graham, what you are saying belowe is sound advice.
A slight variation on the desktop is the small form desktop and I've had
one of these for near on five years now. I figured that if I got the
RAM size right, and I had an adequate video card - mine's 128Mb (talking
XP here) then the basic system was always going to be sufficient for my
purposes. There is one expansion slot which I've not used as yet. Oh,
there is a serial port and I use a secondhand external synth in this.
My thinking was that there are now many USB and firewire devices that
can add functionality and I've got an external higher quality firewire
soundcard attached as one of these. Of course external hard discs can
also come in handy if you are running short on internal HD space.
Cheers,
From Ray
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Graham Page
Sent: 3 April 2008 12:52PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: power of a computer
this is a slightly muddy and confusing term for sure but the 3 most
important things that determine the kind of tasks a computer can carry
out I
would say are the processor, including whether it has 1 2 or even 4
cores as
well as it's clock speed is important. The amount of RAM is important
too.
also the nature of the graphics card is important if you want to be
doing
visually intensive tasks such as playing games or editing 3d images.
For
screenreader users I would say that RAM is probably the most important
issue
as your speech software is not massively processor hungry and any modern
processor should work fine. ram is important though and for a Vista
machine, 1 GB should be the absolute minimum.
If you want to use Speech recognition software such as Dragon Naturally
Speaking, I would go for a Pentium 4 procesor or better. A modern core
2
Duo procewsor wwith a speed of 2 GHZ or more is best. Don't consider
less
than 2 GB RAM.
Regards
Graham
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Hornby" <derek.hornby_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Access-Uk@Freelists. Org" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:32 PM
Subject: [access-uk] power of a computer
Hi All
what does it mean when we use the term:
"powerful" regarding a computer.
A desk computer is said to be more "powerful" than a laptop
but in what way?
Regards, Derek
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