It basically mean that the more memory or RAM you have, the more programs you can run together. We'll talk more about memory later. We've covered how the machine operates, and we sort-of think that we understand it. We'll go through each of the components that make up a notebook, and discuss what we think is a reasonable specification for a new notebook buyer. We aren't going to go into ALL the details.
Life is definitely too short for that.
Let's start with the CPU, the brain inside the plastic box. All the Windows machines that you're likely to buy in South Africa are powered by a Pentium processor. There are several kinds of Pentiums, but in the portable computing world there are two basic categories. This year, Intel introduced a new class of Pentiums with something called MMX, or Multi Media Extensions. These Pentiums run normal programs slightly faster and promise to run multimedia programs a great deal faster.