Choosing Hardware. he computer system that is already installed will not meet the Theme Parks requirements because it is inadequate. The RAM (system memory) is about 4000 megabytes too small and would only last for a very short period of time

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Joe Alt        Friday, 05 November 2010        904904.doc

Assignment 3 – Task 1 (D2)

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he computer system that is already installed will  not meet the Theme Park’s requirements because it is inadequate. The RAM (system memory) is about 4000 megabytes too small and would only last for a very short period of time, thus making it a rather expensive mistake. The hard drive is only 10 gigabytes, making it 990 gigabytes short of what you would need.  The optical drive is out of date – it is the equivalent of video in today’s world. The USB is out of date and with the new USB 3, which has been dubbed the super speed USB3, can transport files in seconds not minutes or hours. The CPU goes at a snail’s pace.  There is no graphics editing programme – it only has Windows media centre, which can only let you print photos out and pretty soon, they will stop making updates for Windows XP.

The printer only prints out 18ppm  when I would recommend having “Brother HL-5370DW Mono” because the first page can come out in 8.5 seconds, with a maximum of 30 ppm with a resolution of 1200 x 1200 which means you can print out visitors’ photos quicker than the old system and prevents annoyed customers having to wait for their souvenir photos, thus increasing business.

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I would suggest upgrading to “HP Touchsmart 600”. With a touchscreen, there is no need to have a mouse.  It is 10 times quicker, for the particular requirements the Theme Park will need – which is an improvement over the old VDU. It has an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor which is an improvement on the old system.

As far as the RAM is concerned, I recommend having 4GB which is a substantial improvement on the 64MB.The hard drive has a huge improvement to 1TB over the old system of only 10 GB.

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