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Laptop Buying Guide 2024

 What are the specs of a good Laptop? Clock Speed? Durability? Processing power? 2024 is here and technology is advancing at a much faster rate mostly which is incorporated in New devices being produced; i.e, V.R, A.I, and what's a beautiful thing to experience that than having a device to help you with just that and much more.  Everybody needs a high performance laptop maybe for gaming, programming, production, editing etc. But do we know the most important features to look for when buying one. This guide is made to help you with just that. Laptop with a HDD , SSD always. Choose a laptop with an SSD drive always, first let's see what an HDD is. HDD HDD is called a hard disk drive shortened to a  Hard Disk and is where data is stored. It uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve information made possible by rotating disks known as platters . Here data is accessed randomly. SSD A Solid State Drive is a non-volatile and a newer generation storage device with a flas

Introduction to OS

Operating System Def-: “It's a program that acts as an interface between the user and computer hardware and also control's execution of all kinds of application program's and system software programs”. Importance of OS's 1. Acts as a resource manager. 2. Job scheduling by passing control of one job to another. 3. Acts as communication link between user's  and the system. 4. Fetches programs From the memory when required. 5. File management. 6. Multiprogramming: by scheduling and controlling the running of several program's at once. 7. Debugging purposes: Helps in detecting errors in a program. Terminologies used in OS. Processes - Is an instance of a program running in a computer. ~ A program in execution is called a process. Files - A collection of data of information. A system call - Is a way for the program to interact with the OS. Shell - A software interface that helps user's interact with the computer via command line. Kernel - Fi