Computers and consoles
Desktops
Transistors, which were much smaller than vacuum tubes, enabled the development of the personal computer (PC) or desktop.
Laptops and netbooks
Laptops were developed in the 1980s and 1990s. Today most people choose a laptop over a desktop computer for work or use at home. Today’s laptops are often as powerful and in some cases more powerful than some desktop computers.
Netbooks
Released in 2007, netbooks were smaller, less powerful laptops. Today they are primarily used for browsing the The complete set of all web pages and documents held on every internet server. Also known as the world wide web. and editing documents but they too are getting more powerful.
Supercomputers
Supercomputers are the most powerful computers in existence. The fastest supercomputer as of 2011 is 'K', in Japan. ‘K’ performs 8 quadrillion calculations per second, which is roughly as powerful as one million desktop PCs combined.
Games consoles
Games were originally played on computers. In 1971, ‘Pong’ went on sale. It was the first computer game available on the mass market.
Games consoles were introduced in 1972 with the release of the Magnavox Odyssey.
To begin with, games were loaded from plug-in cartridges but by the 1990s games came on A plastic, circular disc used to store up to 700 MB of music, video or data. CDs are optical storage media, similar to DVDs and Blu-ray discs. and later A plastic, circular disc used to store music, video or data. DVDs are optical storage media, similar to CDs and Blu-ray discs.. Games became increasingly complex with better A visual image displayed on screen or stored as data..
Games consoles are now a mass market, with motion-sensing technology that allows players to control games by movement. Watch the video below to see motion-sensing technology in action.
People continue to play games on computers but a separate, powerful A part of a computer system that deals with drawing pictures and images to a screen or display. More powerful graphics cards are needed for some computer games or 3D animation applications. is required to play games at the highest graphical detail.
