Monday, February 27, 2012

Week 5 - Hardware (Part 2)

This week's lecture took a deeper look into more several aspects of a computer's hardware. It informs us not only of the individual parts and the key roles in the ability to contribute to a fully functioning computer but also about hardware's individual compositions. We learned the materials and chemicals involved in creating these individual components needed to build proper computer hardware. With that we saw, the consequences of using such materials and the effects that they have on others and on the globe.

Having the ability to absorb this week's information, allowed myself once again to more closely consider not the hardware pieces that I would need but more so, the potential effects. It made me finalize whether to make my entrepreneurial idea discussed in earlier posts to be a device or to be an application. If it was a device I would need to consider the different components, which materials last longer as well as which one are most cost-efficient.

However, if I were to stay away from the complications and implications of using hard ware I must consider if developing an application would achieve the same potential as the device I would create to be plugged into a computer. Additionally, if I could reach my idea's full potential through the development of an application would it become too taxing on an individual computer and thus running the potential of not just checking the computer's health but hurting it as well.

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