Current+Trends+Questions

1. What has happened to clock speeds in the past 20 years?

2. Give an example of what you would consider to be a standard clock speed for a current computer system.

3. How have manufacturers improved the performance of processors in the last 20 years?

4. What would you consider a standard RAM size to be for a standard computer today?

5. Apart from producing physically smaller RAM chips with larger amounts of memory, what has been important for the computer manufacturer in relation to RAM?

6. What other ways have computer manufacturers increased the access speed to memory?

7. Give an example of how Hard Disk drives have changed in the past 20 years.

8. What difference is there in the way we use backing storage today compared with 10 years ago?

9. Why are devices such as DVD burners now standard on computers when 10 years ago they were not, even though they were available ?

10. Why have USB pen drives become popular over the past few years?