Software on the other hand is the things that you can’t see. Software is the name given to programs that are installed on the computer, such as Windows XP, Windows 7, Microsoft Word, Adobe Suite and others. Software includes every program that you download from the internet, and play games with or use to do math problems etc.

Every job that came up after that I had to do the deployment and the training. It was very awkward for me, having no formal training. I stumbled quite a bit and had to call Microsoft support to save me many times. It was not fun at all. My true passion had always been with IT and now I was doing something that I had never planned on doing.

You should also take note of the speed of the optical drive that you purchase. Faster is better. A 48X CD drive means that is 48 times faster than the first CD drive. The same concept applies to DVD drives. A fast Cd and DVD drive can greatly save you time when you are burning files onto a CD or DVD.

If you’re a fan, past or present, of point and click adventure games such as Monkey Island, beneath a Steel Sky, and others, then you must have Scum VM Ds. Scum VM is the ScummVM project. The Scum VM project is an attempt to re-engineer many classic points and click adventure games of the 80s and 90s to run on modern computer hardware. Technology has changed a lot since these games were written, and so Scum VM attempts to replicate the gameplay of the original games in exacting details, without any of the original code that the game ran on. Scum VM needs a copy of the original game, in order to take the graphics, sound, and scripts that made the game work. Scummy VM was written and coded in a manner that quickly and easily allows it to be ported from one operation system / machine to the next.

If you shop around, make a note of the features of the laptops and Netbooks, including; price, CPU speed, Ram memory installed, version of Windows, screen size, keyboard size, and typical battery run time. If you can try a demo laptop and a demo Netbook, it will give you a better feel for the overall differences.

Then there’s the baffling issues, like your computer refusing to turn on or simply overheating and shutting down without even giving you a chance to log on.

When choosing your mouse, be sure that it is comfortable to hold. Some mice are built for computer users with large hands. You will have difficulty maneuvering with these types of mice if your hands are small. The same thing applies if you are trying to handle a mouse that is too small for your hands.