Computer hardware part 1: An introduction to this series of articles about the internals of the computer through my training as a specialist for system integration and of course my interest in computers since my childhood, I would like to try to convey the hardware of a computer for other interested parties. I would like to not contact this people, who want to know, works like a mouse or Windows. I would like to describe why the computer just does, how he does it. We do so right up front: what is hardware? Short is that which you can also handle hardware. So as the casing as also the processor, the graphics card, the mouse, the monitor, hard drives, peripherals such as printers and scanners also. Software, however, is everything, what you can’t touch, the programs. Of the operating system such as Windows, Linux, or Mac OS through the application programs such as the (Internet) Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Word, Excel up to the drivers, so the hardware work at all or can be used.
The basics”or what will give you the advertising wants and what’s really behind” the advertising in trade magazines, television, etc. will believe us thinking that revolutionary innovations taking place in the world of computers churning. Gamer graphics cards with enormous storage and much more with more and more gigahertz, huge RAM, are recruited. Of course we all know that advertising will be made not to make us run the product. But behind this supposed innovations often only hot air. The truth is: the foundations of today’s PCs and their colleagues set about 30 years ago.
What is touted today as ground-breaking, is basically an adaptation often getting worse programmed software, or vice versa: the software is programmed by the ever-faster hardware often sloppy. But that should not bother us in these articles. We look behind the facade of prospectuses and advertising, where the innovations really are. If you think today about after what he really buying? This news not just premature might discarded technology on the market, still not extensively tested in practice? Many customers have created exactly this thought, if your PC the first time on strike or the driver is too immature and constantly crashes. But also the major hardware manufacturers are not immune from mistakes: as Intel had a mistake in his mathematical unit of processor line, which occurred only in the rarest cases. NVidia also had a series of graphics cards recently heat problems. The customer is held to make new drivers simply slow the graphics card for the purpose of better cooling. If then passed the 2 year warranty, you can no longer sue the manufacturer. This article services as a small introduction into the realm of the computer. Next follow the real innovations in the computer. And then it goes into the nitty-gritty.