Or rather, the definition of what is extra is undergoing major revision as office workers begin doing their jobs via intranets and the Web. Java and ActiveX applets enliven the delivery of more and more information. All this requires office computers to leverage new technologies. Minimal sound systems, video accelerators and higher data throughput are becoming essential in the average office computer. Let's take a look at some prognostications for peripherals.
Demand is at an all-time high because of easy CD software installation and data archiving.
The CD-rewritable format can write as well as rewrite data on a disk. The upside is that the disk can be updated after it has been written. A new kid on the block, digital video disk or DVD, puts much larger amounts of digitized video on disks the size of current CD-ROMs. The potential cost savings for enterprise archival are tremendous. The roadblock, however, is the fight now going on over desktop recordable and rewritable DVD formats.