Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Types of Computers

In this week we can see about types of computers. Friends who know this please ignore this, those who dont know check out it will be very much helpful.
There are 10 types of Computers.

Personal computer:

Computers which are used by a single person at one time is called personal computer, many applications can run in a single time. Some of them say computers which have Windows, Linux are the only personal computers. Mac also comes under personal computer.

Desktop computers:

Those computers which cant be used while travelling. Which is used by keeping under a stiff flat surface for support is called desktop computers. We can store vast number of information. This is the best performance computers.

Laptop:

Other name for Laptop is Note Book computers. They look slim and weight less. We can carry this in a bag with us. Has good storage capacity. This has good memory storage, but not as good as Desktop computers. They work through power stored in battery.

PDA (Personal Digital Assistant):

In this type of computer instead of hard disk they have flash drives. There will be no keyboard; this is based on touch screen technology. This will be very small as a small size novel, weight is also less. There are PDAs which are tied in hand as a wrist watch, those are called handheld computers.

Work Station:

This is similar to desk top computers; the performance will be more than the Desktop computers. 3D graphic technology is the best feature in this type of computers. The memory storage is more compared to Desktop computers. This is used mainly for gaming purpose.

Server:

Server is a computer through which we can connect many client computers. There will be network connection exist between the server and the client computers. Server computer will store all the information’s about the client computer and its working. This will have vast storage capabilities, with good performance.

Mainframe:

Mainframe computers are those which deal with enormous number of transactions between the computers. Even though this computer needs lot of space the working of this is a must for big organizations. In a single time this can work with more than a lakh of transactions. Computers that use Enterprise server is called as Mainframe.

Mini Computer:

The computers with work between personal computer and mainframe computers are named as mini computers. This was also called as Mid Range Servers. Recently these computers are not used by many organizations.

Super Computer:

Gray super is the company which builds these super computers and provides to the customers who needs it. The cost of these super computers is high. Mainly used in war field and scientific researches. These computers will have performance of many computers at the same time. The accuracy will be high as this are used in scientific research areas.

Wearable Computer:

These are the most recent invention of computers, these types of computers are very small and tiny, we can wear this in glasses and work, this can support applications like Email, database, multimedia, calendar, scheduler, Etc.

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