The Commoditization of the Personal Computer
1. Write your own description of what the term information systems hardware means.
2. What is the impact of Moore’s Law on the various hardware components described in this
chapter?
3. Write a summary of one of the items linked to in the “Integrated Computing” section.
4. Explain why the personal computer is now considered a commodity.
5. The CPU can also be thought of as the of the computer.
6. List the following in increasing order (slowest to fastest): megahertz, kilohertz, gigahertz.
7. What is the bus of a computer?
8. Name two differences between RAM and a hard disk.
9. What are the advantages of solid-state drives over hard disks?
10. How heavy was the first commercially successful portable computer?
