Computers Now a Part of Consumer Electronic Technologies.
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The home is not a place for bulky appliances that take up expensive real estate space. It is not a place for complicated gadgets that require a PhD to operate.
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The home is not a place for bulky appliances that take up expensive real estate space. It is not a place for complicated gadgets that require a PhD to operate. The home is where things get simplified. Electric appliances are there to make life convenient and comfortable – the hallmarks of 20th century living. There was a time when households would have nothing that looks like a computer in the home, unless you’re a scientist working a lab at home.
If a market survey were conducted in the late 70s asking if the average household can get by with a computer at home, with the common conception of what a computer looks like, the overwhelming survey response would have been a resounding NO.
But fast forward to the early 90s, a good decade after Bill Gates made computing landmark by introducing the desktop Personal Computer to the world with a tie up with IBM. The world was never the same with it. Now, just about every home couldn’t imagine not getting by without one. From printing resumes and kid’s school works, to making greeting cards, printing recipes and browsing the internet, a home PC has become as indispensable as a TV or a ref. It’s not unlikely that every member of the family now has one of his own, where before the idea of sharing the computing resources had to be done due to cost. Now, the home PC is cheap enough that even a grade schooler can have one of his own.
What Made The Personal Computer a Consumer Success Story?
Value for the money is often the quality that makes any consumer product successful. With computers, that value for the money came about from several technological advances that have made the Personal Computer an indispensable tool both at home and in the office where they started out in the early 80s.
Productivity Booster
The PC took over the typewriter as another essential home appliance. You don’t need to be a professional writer to own a typewriter in the 60s and 70s. Typing letters, forms and your school thesis are a typewriter’s intrinsic value. The PC made it obsolete. Just about any typing need can be done on the PC. And that’s just a small part of what the PC can do. You can print greeting cards as well as stitch together graphic arts for your room décor.
Imaging and Gaming
The PC won’t be all that useful if not for the emergence of digital cameras and videocams that can be edited and worked in a PC. If you have the right expansion cards, you can even edit your old VHS family tapes and digitize them into blank DVDs for posterity without fear of degradation that magnetic tapes are heir to. And the gaming opportunities are endless, limited only by the storage capacity on the PC, but even that can now be overcome with newer hard disks in the gigabyte range.
Entertainment
The PC is your server for all your MP3 and video files downloaded form the internet. With an amplified speaker set hooked to it, the PC is often the main entertainment console especially among the young. Watch movies or play your favourite music from it.
But what really made the PC such a darling is rooted on the miniaturization that went with putting all the computing power on a footprint that didn’t present any installation difficulty in any home. That, and the price performance ratio that went down with it. While it may require some saving up to, it’s no hassle getting one from your paycheck. GP
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ITC Sales is a leading supplier of Dell Laptops such has the Dell Vostro and Dell Inspiron
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