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Manuel Sosa-By Manuel Sosa Every time that I log into the internet and read about some new technology, I just wonder what awaits us for the future. The only thing that I am glad about is that things are only going to keep getting better. I got my first computer when I was in sixth grade. I remember that it was extremely slow, it must have had something like 56 megs of RAM or something like that; lets not talk about the memory capacity, the hard drive must have been a couple of megabytes. Looking back I am shocked at how rapidly and drastically computers have evolved. I have seen computers with a terabyte of memory and 1gig of graphics memory. The possibilities in the future could really be endless with the new high -volume hard drives, and the amazing graphics cards that are coming out. Luckily I have gotten a chance to take a part in all of this. After my first computer, which ran on Windows 95, I got an HP which ran on Windows Me, a decent OS. This computer however was clearly a big step from the previous one. This PC had a 40 gigabyte hard drive and a graphics card with 32 megabytes of memory, and 128 megs of RAM. I was just amazed at the games that I could play, although now I look back and I laugh. I just could not get enough of how the performance of computers had drastically increased. It was a good computer I still have it, but to be honest I rarely use it anymore if at all. It was not until my freshman year of high school when my PC experience took the greatest leap. That year I got another HP, this time the operating system was Windows XP. This operating system in my opinion was a great improvement and a drastic change from the previous operating systems. This is when I was truly amazed at what the new computers were capable of. This new computer had an 80 gig hard drive, 512 megs of RAM and Intel integrated graphics ( which were not that great, I later replaced it with an Nvidia Graphics card with 256 megs of memory). I was amazed at the applications that I was able to run with this new computer. That was my last desktop now I have gone with something somewhat more lightweight. This summer I bought one of the new HP laptops for my architecture class, and my fascination and amazement keeps increasing. This laptop has a 120 gig hard drive, an Nvidia graphics card with 256 megs of memory, a Duo AMD Turion processor, 2 gigs of RAM and even a web cam. All of this in a notebook PC! That's why I can't cease to be amazed at the pace that computers are evolving. Not only are the computers rapidly evolving but also our TV's and our MP3 players. Who could ever imagine that you could put so much information in such a little device such as the iPods that have a 60 gig hard drive. From what I have read hard drives will keep becoming smaller but will increase capacity, such as the Toshiba minidrives. Its crazy to think that only a couple of years ago some computers had huge hard drives that had a capacity less than a gig. My first cool device that I bought that has this type of technology was a Samsung MP3 player. The little thing is amazing it can play music of course, videos, view pictures, tune to the radio, record radio and voice, record any audio from another audio jack, USB host and last but not least motion games. All of this in .12 lbs with a 1.8 inch TFT screen, in an incredibly small size. (Picture attached). At the rate that computer technology is advancing we will soon see ourselves immersed in a new world filled with and heavily influenced with computers. Computers have become an integral part of our everyday lives, but I think that this is only the beginning. I am glad about that because its an exciting mystery as to what type of computer I will be using in 20 years someday when I am architect. References: | Scholarship 2006 Winners and Participants | Related Items: | Jason Kao | Ryan Dodge | Richard Evans | Alex Rosolowsky | Eryn Cangi | Andrew W. Leonard | Feleg Tsegaye | Maria Khan | Pierce Schiller | Hang Zhang | Manuel Sosa | Jay Xiao | Tomasz Zarebczan | Zaphod Beeblebrox | Brian Gruening | Ross Solomon | Kyle Romero | Eshcole Peets | Ruth Maynie | Michael Schatte | |
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