Johns parents decided to buy a computer which can help John with his work at college and home. As an IT Manager I can help Johns parents to choose the right computer and what is needed to support his courses and hobbies.

OCR Level 2 National in ICT

Unit 13 – IT Systems and User Needs

“Waines World”

A01: Selecting Suitable Hardware and Software

Task 1 –Aims and Purpose

These are my aims and purposes for the computer that John’s parents intend to buy for him. John’s parents decided to buy a computer which can help John with his work at college and home. As an IT Manager I can help John’s parents to choose the right computer and what is needed to support his courses and hobbies.

In order to help John’s parents to buy a suitable computer for John he needs a dell computer which is a computer with good quality. The positive thing about having a computer is that it makes it easier to finish off his work or carry on with it. He should change his computer to the German language which makes it easier for him to do his a-levels in German. The internet could also help him to research any doubts he has or help, which is needed for his course.

If he wants to, he could buy the computer in English and change it into German but the software for that will be needed or he can buy a German computer at any special ICT shops who also sell German computers.

He also needs to have Microsoft publisher- or word 2007 to produce his leaflets for the local conservative party. The computer is useful for his ICT skills as he can learn many new things which are important for his ICT course. He should use all the suites which he uses in college.

To help John with his art course he should look at different software which he can use to develop his art skills, the internet is also useful for the course because he can download the software he needs and test it for some time.

At his free time at home he should be allowed to do his favourite things he wants to do. So he could use the internet to play his favourite game or chat with his friends via email. He should also get windows media player or any other music player so he can listen to his favourite music and this can help him to relax when he does his art work.

His computer should also be suitable to save photos, because one of his hobbies is taking photographs so this would be helpful. He also can save his work which is very important. It’s also important that the computer includes DVD player so John can make home movies which is part of his hobby.

He should also have good pictures of things he likes which he can get from the internet. So he could use it as desktop wallpaper and change the pc to his taste.

Task 2 – Hardware Requirements

In this task I’m going to list different hardware components which John will require so his computer works.