We Put the 'U' in CP'U'!!

1.)What is the function of a CPU?

It is a Central Processing Unit or a microprocessor is like a computer engine that performs different methods and calculations all within a single chip.

2.)What was the name of the first CPU?

Intel 4004 which was used in 1971. It wasn't very powerful all it could do was add and subtract and it was very slow because it could only do maths 4 bits at a time.

3.)Referring to the graph on page 2 of the article, describe how the speed of CPU's has changed.

All of the features have increased to perform more things ata faster rate. For example in 1974 the clock speed was 2MHz and it's name was 8080 this means 2 milliopn cycles per second. Compared to 2004 the Pentium 4 "Prescott" is 3.6 GHz which is 3.6 billion cycles per second. WOooooooWWW

4.)What does MIPS measure?

It stands for Millions of Instructions Per Second. Wow it's like one day when the teachers will try to shove heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps of information in our minds per second. I reckon our brains would explode. It measures the performance of the CPU. Just like judges.

5.) A dual Core Processor is a CPU that has 2 execution cores that work independently all in one chip. Since they are independent workers and not in a group if one fails the other can pick the program that is opened right back up again. This is why the execution cores are really good at multitasking which is when the CPU can perform different jobs and run different programs at the same time.

The Intel Atom.

Oh my Gosh................it is so samll less than 26mm in area. It is designed to be able to have the internet cappability of a normal computer, to last long so there is no need to charge it up. It is used in the latest mobile internet devices including netbooks and nettops. It has a massive amount of power for a tiny little thing and the company think it will be a big hit.

Which Candidate wins

Nicole and I have voted today. And the winner is................Scrappy the Online DogBlogger. We discussed it's performance and decided that we would have fun personalizing it and it would be engaging for the reader.

Nicole and I also chose the subjects from the different coloured list that we want to research.

In the Blue

Me=1. Computer Displays

Nicole= 6. Handheld Multimedia devices

In the Pink

Me= 7. piracy and copyright

Nicole= 9. Social networking

In the Yellow

Me= 16. Types of ports

Nicole= 14. Graphics cards

In the Green

Me= 18. Blutooth

Nicole= 20. wifi

Scrappy the online DogBlogger

I've spent some time with Scrappy the DogBlogger and I think he's a good candidate for our ist assignment.
Good Things about Scrappy
-Heaps of applications to personalise and easy to use
-visually asthetic or eye catching
-Fun to personalise to make us more enthusiastic about our work
-Nicole and I can both log on and edit at the same time so we are able to get more work done
-Soon there will be the ability to print the scrap blog just in caswe sir is unable to view it


Bad Things about Scrappy
-There is no menu to tell the reader the content
-Some appl;ications you have to pay for
-It takes a fair bit of time to personalise
-It's more of a slideshow type blog

Overall Scrappy is quite good

Page Flakes or Fish Food

Page Flakes reminds me of fish food for some unknown reason.

1. A 'flake' is a piece of fish food that you feed your pet goldfish. Just joking! A'flake' in page flakes is an application tool that you can add to your page to personalise it. Such things are video toolbar, news reports, blogging station, weather, email, music toolbar e.t.c. Although with the video toolbar you can't put your own videos on it.

2.A page cast is when you publish your page so others can get applications or information off them. They allow you to send them to others and add them to your own page.

3.We could use a pagecast to show our information to others in our class more easily. We could also get information from others who have page casted and that could also help to personalize our page.

Advantages of Pageflakes

-we are both able to log on and edit at the same time.

-It has a sort of blogging sticky note application tool that will help us type our information

-It's very straight forward and easy to figure out how to use

-There is many flakes that we can put onto our page

-Create other pages to organize the information

-The blogging flake automatically minimizes if there is a lot of information and the viewer can click on 'more' to expand the information

-It's free

-You can create the backround of your page and make it more personalised.

Disadvantages of Pageflakes

-We can only put the flakes in certain areas of the page. There is only a fixed position and that's in a column or a row

-If you wanted to upload a video you woul have to put it on a website and grab the URL