Week 5: Clear

Before this course,and the lecture on the processor, I had only heard of the term before as well as the term processing speed. From this two terms I was able to form the idea that a processing deals with the speed at which a computer...well...process things.

Indeed, this is the case as the processor carries out instructions you relay to the computer and depending on what type of processor you have, those instructions can take a while to take effect or start working immediately.

Processors have evolved a lot over the past few decades with the creation of parallel processing, which is when multiple processors work in one computer. I never knew what the sticker on my laptop that said "Athlon-X2" meant until working through the processing lecture. I now know that my computer runs a dual core processor, meaning two processors are running to speed my computer up.

That sounds pretty good for a college student who takes multiple online and computing classes!

So a major factor when selecting what kind of computer you purchase will be what kind of processor it has as that will determine how fast most of your work will get done. There are other factors that will need to be looked at as well, such as RAM, but that is a topic for a different blog post.