Slide 1 Tomorrow’s Technology and You Chapter 3 Hardware - Peripherals © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 2 Chapter 3 What can we learn from Microsoft? What are the possible health risks of extensive computer use and how can we minimize them? What are the guidelines when shopping for computers? What are the emerging technologies for storage and display of information, and what might be the effects on society? (From Chapter 1) How can we search the Web safely and effectively, verify the validity of information found, and attribute correctly? (Note that we are not covering the Hardware basics portion of this chapter – use it as a resource if you need explanations of basics in work on later chapters – eg RFID – p72)

Slide 3 What can we learn from Bill Gates? (pp 65-66) 1980 – Microsoft produces an OS for IBM’s new PC. Bill Gates and Paul Allen Where did the OS (DOS) come from? IBM license was ‘non-exclusive’ so what? Microsoft now sells: OS – Windows – current version? Office Applications – what are they? What else? How do they deal with competition? What can we learn from this? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 4 Chapter 3 Objectives What can we learn from Microsoft? What are the possible health risks of extensive computer use and how can we minimize them? What are the guidelines when shopping for computers? What are the emerging technologies for storage and display of information, and what might be the effects on society? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 5 Ergonomics (p 86) What does the term mean? What are the results of poor ergonomics? RSI (e.g. CTS) ‘Techno-stress- (e.g. CVS -is Google helpful here?) How bad is the problem? Why is the text coverage so limited? What can we do? Posture & position Posture & position Ergonomic hardware Eliminate screen flicker! Other ideas? What else can we do? learn to touch type! – how? lots more in text and on web! - eg: © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 6 Chapter 3 Objectives What can we learn from Microsoft? What are the possible health risks of extensive computer use and how can we minimize them? What are the guidelines when shopping for computers? What are the emerging technologies for storage and display of information, and what might be the effects on society? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 7 Shopping for Computers (p 94) Laptop vs desktop? Mac vs PC Windows vs ? XP vs Vista RAM size and Processor Speed How measured? Guidelines? What other hardware will I need to decide on? Screen size Hard drive size CD-RW/DVD-ROM vs CD/DVD+RW KB, mouse, screen, with laptop? Printer, cables, ink! © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 8 Shopping for Computers Internet connection costs Backup device Flash drive – why not? if you must use, use patch cable! – why? External hard drive N: drive! – why is it better? Can I upgrade? USB vs Firewire Ports, RAM slots, disk bays Shop the ‘knee of the curve’ – how? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 9 Shopping for Computers (p94) Software Applications? – MS Office vs ? Security? Ergonomic furniture Vendor – price vs support Warranties / Help – what are my options? ‘Avoid becoming a prisoner’ To what? How? Other issues © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 10 Chapter 3 Objectives What can we learn from Microsoft? What are the possible health risks of extensive computer use and how can we minimize them? What are the guidelines when shopping for computers? What are the emerging technologies for storage and display of information, and what might be the effects on society? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Slide 11 A Look at the Future (p 97,98) Solid state storage what is this? so what? LCD displays flat panels, goggles, ‘heads-up’ displays pros and cons? Retinal displays uses? problems? ‘Ambient Information’ What is it? So what? © 2006 Prentice-Hall, Inc.