Carol Vorderman's internet column: help you get the right PC.RANDOM Access Memory or just RAM for short is where the PC stores programs while they are running. It is measured in megabytes (Mb) and is another part of the PC where it pays to buy as much as you can afford, 256 Mb if possible. With more RAM the PC can work faster and also run more programs at once - allowing you to switch between the different programs at the touch of a button. This makes cutting and pasting paste 1 n. 1. A soft, smooth, thick mixture or material, as: a. A smooth viscous mixture, as of flour and water or of starch and water, that is used as an adhesive for joining light materials, such as paper and cloth. information between programs faster and easier. You should not consider a new PC with less than 64Mb because new software titles are requiring more and more RAM to function properly. Some of the latest games, for example, will not run on machines with less than 64Mb. RAM comes in the form of small printed circuit boards that plug into the main board of the PC. A good "future-proof" PC will have sockets for one or two more memory boards so that you can add extra RAM when you need to. There are different types of RAM. Make sure that you are getting SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. rather than the slower and now obsolete OBSOLETE. This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed, 2. A positive statute, unrepealed, can never be repealed by non-user alone. 4 Yeates, Rep. 181; Id. 215; 1 Browne's Rep. Appx. 28; 13 Serg. & Rawle, 447. EDO RAM (Extended Data Out RAM) A earlier dynamic RAM chip that improved the performance of fast page mode (FPM) memory in the mid-1990s. As a subset of fast page mode, it could be substituted for page mode chips. . Also, look out for a specification that includes PC-100 RAM which works faster than conventional memory and is fitted to many high-performance Adj. 1. high-performance - modified to give superior performance; "a high-performance car" superior - of high or superior quality or performance; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students" systems. www.our favourite TERM is just a few days old and already you think teaching is sending you round the bend. Check the warning signs at: http://anduin.eldar.org/ ben/funny/html/28.html. You believe the staff room should be equipped with a Valium Valium Trademark for a preparation of diazepam. A tranquillizing drug used to treat anxiety and tension states and as an aid in sedation, first introduced in 1963, it belongs to the group of chemically related compounds called benzodiazepines, the first of which was salt lick lick 1. a stroke with the tongue, normally used in cleaning the coat or ingesting a substance from a flat surface. See also licking. 2. a mixture of salt plus other macro-elements, especially phosphorus, trace elements, vitamins and other feed additives, fed loosely in a box . You can tell it's a full moon without looking outside. You want to slap the next person who says: "Must be nice to work from 9am to 4pm and have your summers free!" You believe "shallow gene pool" should have its own box on the report card. When out in public you feel the urge to talk to strange children and correct their behaviour. You can't have children because there's no name you could give a child that wouldn't bring on high blood pressure the moment you heard it uttered. FREE VIDEO THE Mirror and Time Computers have made a video, Choosing The Right PC. It is available to Mirror readers free on request from any Time store or call 0800 0 721 621. |
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