1. How to: Purchase Technology Tanya Howe / San Diego Community College District

2. Your needs: -Do you like playing with technology? Email / Internet Photo Editing Music editing Movie Editing Word Processing CD / DVD How many hours per day will you spend on it? Would you like portability? Will you travel with it? Do you have space for a large monitor?

3. What’s important to you? Speed? Storage (Hard Drive Space?) Gaming? Will this computer grow with you and your knowledge? Movie watching on the computer? Wireless Printing Wirelessly? The Choice is yours…..

4. Desktop

5. Laptop

6. Tablet

7. Cell Phone

8. Factors to consider in buying a computer: Processor Intel Core i3, Corei5, Corei7 AMD A6, AMD FX 6300, AMD FX 8350 RAM The more the merrier! Hard Drive Depends on your needs 500GB-3TB Mac / Apple Longevity, expensive, simple, free support Windows 7 – great OS Windows 8 – may get better, great if you are new to computers Video Card – faster rendering for graphic programs.

9. At look at what to buy: Desktop Computers Laptops Printers Price comparison…beware of where you buy: budget laptop CC Budget laptop T Budget laptop W

10. Tablets: Windows $250/350 App store  iPad: $550 ++ Apps for everything Expensive Nexus $250 + Android operating system Lots of apps Galaxy Tab $99 -$350 Kindle Great READER. All the others=junk

11. Printers Wireless Fax Scan Copier Ink Jet Laser printers

12. Backup Hard Drives External online