Posts Tagged ‘monitor’
Dell U2410 UltraSharp – A Dell Monitor For Photographers
September 21st, 2009
Dell announced a new 24″ IPS Monitor that covers 100% of sRBG color space (or 96% of Adobe Color Space). Plus, every unit is shipped pre-tuned in the factory and spots a “color calibration factory report”. What that means is that every unit of Dell U2410 that is shipped is color accurate out of the box.
Other color related features include:
* Superior greyscale tracking
* 110% (NTSC) Color Gamut
* 1.07 billion color depth from 12 bit internal processing
* 6 Axis Color Controls (RGBCMY)
The Dell U2410 UltraSharp replaces the Legendary Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP that was highly regarded by consumers who wanted color accuracy.
The World’s First Laptop. Back to 1981!
September 11th, 2008
The worlds first laptop looked a little different than the ones we’re used to today.
The Osbourne 1, introduced to the world April 1981 boasted a 5 inch monitor, 64k of RAM, dual 5-1/4 inch, 91K floppy drives, weighed in at 24.5 pounds and had a sticker price of only $1795.00. A steal, considering it came bundled with over $1500 worth of cutting edge software (circa 1981).
Available options were a 300 baud modem and an optional double density disk drives (for which an extra circuit board had to be installed) .
The Osbourne 1 was quite a hit and a brisk seller, reaching monthly sales of over $1,000,000 in September of that year.
What is Hardware?
January 4th, 2008
Your PC (Personal Computer) is a system, consisting of many components. Some of those components, like Windows XP, and all your other programs, are software. The stuff you can actually see and touch, and would likely break if you threw it out a fifth-story window, is hardware.
Not everybody has exactly the same hardware. But those of you who have a desktop system, like the example shown in Figure 1, probably have most of the components shown in that same figure. Those of you with notebook computers probably have most of the same components. Only in your case the components are all integrated into a single book-sized portable unit.
The system unit is the actual computer; everything else is called a peripheral device. Your computer’s system unit probably has at least one floppy disk drive, and one CD or DVD drive, into which you can insert floppy disks and CDs. There’s another disk drive, called the hard disk inside the system unit, as shown in Figure 2. You can’t remove that disk, or even see it. But it’s there. And everything that’s currently “in your computer” is actually stored on that hard disk. (We know this because there is no place else inside the computer where you can store information!).
The floppy drive and CD drive are often referred to as drives with removable media or removable drives for short, because you can remove whatever disk is currently in the drive, and replace it with another. Your computer’s hard disk can store as much information as tens of thousands of floppy disks, so don’t worry about running out of space on your hard disk any time soon. As a rule, you want to store everything you create or download on your hard disk. Use the floppy disks and CDs to send copies of files through the mail, or to make backup copies of important items.
