Buying a Home Computer

Site Contents: Introduction | Computer Qualities | Comparison Charts | PC Features | Conclusion | Student Response | Table | End of Project

Topic:

Comparison of Speed Ram. Space and Prices of PCs and Mac.

 

Introduction

The two major types of computer Systems are PC's (also known as IBM compatibles) and Macintosh. There are advantages and disadvantages of both. The Macintosh is generally more user friendly than the PC and many schools are using the Macintosh. This is the main reason that many people buy Macintosh. Since children use the Macintosh in school their parents decide to buy a Macintosh for their home. Macintosh is also popular in the advertising and graphic arts market. Many advertising agencies and graphic artists use the Macintosh because of the easy operating system and graphics software available for Macintosh. But they're more software available for PCs than Macintosh.

Before we decided what type of computer we were going to buy we had to decide how much we were going to spend.

During the last summer we served more than $3,000. We decided to spend $2000.

 

Then we asked our selves the following questions.

1. Since there two types of computers PCs and Macs. Which one is the better buy?

 
2. What are qualities of any computer?
We diced to look at the following qualities.
Speed: How fast can a computer operates
Ram: The random memory of the computer.
Space: How many bites can a computer take.
And the warrant
 
3. How is the price of a computer affected by speed, ram, space and warranty?

After looking at data we realized that for any given computer of PCs and Macs with thesame ram, Mac cost little bit more and PCs were little bit faster. Also there more software available for PC compared to the MAC.

Due to these facts we decided our best buy is PCs.

Then we had to look at the following things before we decided what model of PCs were going to buy

We decide to put our data of IBM into charts we compared speed and price, space and price, ram and price

 

 

 

 

After we looked at the chats we realized that the price of the computer is much affected by the speed, ram and space.

Then we looked at what we want our computer to have.

First we needed a computer with large space possible for we can save our things. And also it can allow us to use some other programs like if we want to use CD writer. Then since the world is the Internet world. This means we need a computer which can connect and read the Internet as fast as possible. So we decided our computer should have high speed as possible. -This would help us to serve time for time is money. Also we wanted computer with better Ram as possible which can operate as many program as possible.

It is due to these facts that we used three main things to decide what are we going to buy. We used speed, ram and megabits to be our main factors to buy a computer. Also how much we had serve for buying a computer paid a great role on what we were going to buy. Then we made our decision, which is to buy a computer with high-speed possible, Great space possible and with better ram possible. Also it has to be under $2000.

We came to a conclusion of buying a computer with highest speed, biggest ram and largest space from the entire model we had from our data. So we decided to buy model number 5, which cost $1,989.00 and it has speed of 800MHz, Ram of 128MB and space of 27gb.

We learned how can mathematical tools like chats can simplify the work of collecting data and putting them in one place. -This helped us to notice several things for just looking at a single chat.

Also is this project which enabled us to practice our skills of using deferent kind of mathematical tools like spreadsheet.

 

Bob and Sulemani

 

     Data Sheet      
           
 MAC          

 Model

Speed

Ram

Space

 

Price

 1  400MHz 64MB SDRAM  10GB Ultra ATA   $1,599.00
 2  450MHz  128MB SDRAM 20GB Ultra ATA   $2,499.00
 3  500MHz 256MB SDRAM 27GB Ultra ATA   $3,499.00
 4  500MHZ 256MB SDRAM 27GB Ultra ATA   $7,498.00
           
 IBM          

 Model

Speed

Ram

Space

warranty

Price

 1 667MHZ 128M BRAM 20.4GB   $1,380.00
 2 533MHZ 64MB RAM 15GB   $1,080.00
 3 850MHZ 128MB RAM 40GB   $2,164.00
 4  650MHZ 128MB RAM 20.4GB   $1,989.00
 5  800MHZ 128MB RAM 27GB   $1,940.00
 6  450MHZ 64MB RAM 6.4GB 36 month $978.00
 7  433MHZ 64MB RAM 4.2GB 36 month $949.03
 8  366MHZ 32MB RAM 4.2GB 36 month $791.70
 9  433MHZ 32MB RAM 4.2GB 36 month $829.99
 10  450MHZ 64MB RAM 6.4GB 36 month  $594.95
 11  400MHZ 32NB RAM 4.2BG 36 month $765.99

 

THE COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO MODELS OF PCs WITH THE SAME RAM

 

 Models of IBM Ram for IBM Speed for IBM Price for IBM   Difference of Price
 2  64MB  533MHZ  $1,080.00    $519.00
 1  128 MB  667MHZ  $1,380.00    $1,119.00
 Models of Mac Ram for Mac Speed for Mac Price for Mac    
 1 64MB  400MHZ  $1,599.00    
 2  128MB  450MHZ $2,499.00    

Note: Models of IBM have been arranged in descending order to match with MAC with the same ram.

C.A.'s comment: Strategies for buying large items

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