Presented at the NLC Tech Rodeo on the Campus of Doane College in Crete, NE, 26-28 July 2012.

1. Michael Sauers
Tech Rodeo
Doane College
26-28 July 2012

3.  Desktop
 Laptop
 Netbook
 NetTop
 Tablet

7.  Intel/AMD
 Different form factors
 Speed measured in gigahertz (GHz)
 Can have multiple “cores”
 Dual-core, Quad-core

8.  Directs heat away
from the CPU
 Heat Sink / Fan / Liquid Cooling

10. http://www.flickr.com/photos/13841229@N00/171474579/

11.  Gigabytes
 Different types
 SRAM/DRAM
 DDR, DDR2, DDR3
 Different form factors
 Laptop vs. desktop
 Check with your
computer’s manual for
the right type!

12. Getty Images

13.  Hard Drive
 Internal vs. External
 Solid-state Drive
 Optical Media
 CD-ROM
 DVD-ROM
 Blu-ray

14.  May be built into the
motherboard
 Can add more powerful
dedicated card which has
it’s own dedicated video
RAM

15.  VGA
 S-Video
 DVI
 HDMI
 (images not to scale)

16.  Firewire
 Ethernet
 WiFi
 USB

18.  Windows
 MacOS
 Linux
 Ubuntu
 RedHat
 Fedora
 32-bit/64-bit

19.  Does your old one do what you need it to do?
 What is your budget?
 Do you have special requirements?
 No, there isn’t a “best” time to buy.

20. Michael Sauers
Technology Innovation Librarian
Nebraska Library Commission
michael.sauers@nebraska.gov