What is a PDA?
A PDA is a computer that is small enough to fit on one’s palms. The acronym stands for Personal Digital Assistance and this computer is sometimes referred to as a palmtop. These small computers present a perfect way for storing email addresses, telephone numbers, accessing the internet, keeping digital calendars, playing games and making calculations. [...]
What is a Power Converter?
This is a power supply unit (PSU) that delivers energy to electronic devices from electrical outlets. In addition it regulates the current for the devices specific requirements to be met. Most power converters are called switched mode power supplies (SMPS) and incorporate the power supply unit and a circuit. Moreover, this is found inside the [...]
What is a Touchpad?
A touchpad is a device that controls the computer in the same way as the mouse. This computing device is a small pad with sensors that react to the user’s finger movements on the pad. The users can therefore interact with the computer by dragging their fingers across the pad in order to move the [...]
What is a UMPC?
A UMPC refers to an Ultra Mobile PC, by Microsoft. The size of a UMPC is between a personal digital assistance (PDA) and a PC tablet. Almost the size of paperback books, an Ultra Mobile PC is light and small enough and can easily fit inside a backpack or purse. Despite its size, the UMPC [...]
What is BIOS?
For a desktop or a laptop computer to work, it must have software as well as hardware. Apart from the operating system and applications, the computer uses the BIOS software in its operations as well. BIOS Stands for either Built In Operating System or Basic Input/Output System. In part, BIOS is firmware code that a [...]
What is a Cache?
A computer cache is a memory circuit whose purpose is to increase the speed of a bigger memory drive. In typical computers, the microprocessor takes 60 nanoseconds when accessing the Random Access Memory (RAM). To reduce the amount of time the microprocessor takes when accessing data in the RAM, a specialized memory circuit is set [...]
What is Broadband?
Broadband is an advanced telecommunication whose infrastructure is capable of data delivery in two directions at 200kbps/sec. The transmission must support this speed for both directions to be considered a broadband service. It can further be described as transmission of data where a single wire or medium carries a variety of channels at the same [...]
What is DisplayPort?
DisplayPort is a digital video interface standard. Currently, the newest is the creation of Video Electronics Standard Association (VESA). DisplayPort serves as an interface for televisions, panel displays that are flat in nature, CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors, receivers for home entertainment and interfaces for video port. VESA came up with the display port to [...]
What is High Resolution?
High resolution basically means an image reproduced with high levels of detail. High resolution usually refers to extremely high quality images, containing a large amount of detail. High resolution speaks of to many people as digital images like digital photographs, CRT screens for television resolution or PC monitor resolution and digital television sets. Also referenced [...]
What is Lithium-ion Battery?
Lithium-ion batteries are rechargeable batteries that use a lithium electric ion. The ion moves from the anode electrode to the cathode electrode during a discharge and from the cathode electrode to the anode during charging. Lithium-ion batteries are in fact the most commonly used types of batteries for portable electronic devices. This is because the [...]
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