The CPU.

1. What is the function of the CPU?
   The hardware of a computer is the thing that makes the computer run. Without it the computer is just an empty shell. Each hardware has a CPU, which is classified according to the power and its capabilities. Some factors of the CPU of a computer which makes it capable of things others ’t, are the memory, which is measured in gigabytes, the RAM (or Random Access Memory), the processor chip i.e. Pentium chip and the motherboard.  
2. What was the name of the first CPU?
   Intel 4004
3. Describe how the speed of the CPU's has changed.
4. What does MIPS measure?
   It is a method of measuring the raw speed of a computer's processor.
5. Reaserch (Google it) what is a dual core processor, what is multitasking and how do the two work together.
   A dual core processor is a CPU with two seperate cores on the same die, each with its own cache. It's the equivalent of getting two microprocessor in one.
   Multitasking is the simultaneous execution of more than one program or task by a single computer processor.
   As software developers are coming out with more advanced applications, tasks that computers can perform these days are getting more and more complicated. While you had to go for a coffee brake when burning a CD on Windows 3.11, you can burn a DVD, listen to online radio, and play graphics-intensive games at the same time today. Multitasking is as natural today as breathing, but it also requires more power and speed than ever before.
6. Benefits of what the Intel Atom Processor offers to mobile devices.- A new range of power effiency devices.
   - Highly integrated application processor
   - Smaller, more compact design
   - Lower power option
   - Better performance and increased system responsiveness
    
   
   

The World of Multimedia.

1. Where do you commonly use multimedia? in your daily life, list as many as you can.- Home
   - School
   - Workplaces
2. What multimedia device or service would you find it hardest to be without?I could not live without my laptop. It's my life (literally), I store nearly everything onto my laptop, starting from music, videos, movies, school documents, EVERYTHING. I search the web with my laptop every single day and communicate with other people. Without my laptop I wouldnt not what I would be doing right now. (lol)
3. The video on future directions (third video) has already to some extent come true. What multimedia technologies displayed in this video are already commonly used?
4.  Do you see any advantages/disadvantages to the use of such multimedia technology?

TBC