My danky stream by Liam McCormack https://padlet.com/mcc17004607/ffowbpw8r761 Made with cups and cAKEessesesesd en-us 2017-10-02 12:20:37 UTC 2025-11-02 00:32:08 UTC hello@padlet.com Solid Sates VS Hard drives mcc17004607 https://padlet.com/mcc17004607/ffowbpw8r761/wish/192947182 Basically:
Solid Sate = Fast & Expensive
Hard Drive = Slow & Cheap
 
Basic overview of Hard Drives 
The traditional spinning hard drive is the basic nonvolatile storage on a computer. A hard drive is essentially a metal platter with a magnetic coating that stores your data. A read/write head on an arm accesses the data while the platters are spinning.
Basic overview of SSD
An SSD does functionally everything a hard drive does, but data is instead stored on interconnected flash memory chips that retain the data even when there's no power present. These flash memory chips are of a different type than is used in USB thumb drives, and are typically faster and more reliable. SSDs are consequently more expensive than USB thumb drives of the same capacities.

Speeds
SSD                        200 - 550 MB/s      
10-13 seconds average bootup time 

Hard Drive             50 – 120MB / s      30-40 


Around Around
Cost (using averages)
For a Hard drive             1 TB = ~£40
For a SSD                        1 TB = ~300

Cost per GB
1 GB per £0.04
1 GB per £0.30

An SSD on average cost 7.5 times more than a Hard Drive of the same capacity.

Data rot
Hard drives can be damaged as they contain moving components and their data can decay if they are not being used but this is other a much longer time span than SSD.
SSD can also decay if they are not plugged in and used but they do not contain and moving parts so they are less likely to break.
]]> 2017-10-02 12:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mcc17004607/ffowbpw8r761/wish/192947182 CRT & LCD tibulschia https://padlet.com/mcc17004607/ffowbpw8r761/wish/192947282 CRTs are usually larger and more awkward on a desk than LCDs. Some LCDs can be 1 inch or even smaller whereas the CRTs are much bigger than that.

LCDs can have dead pixels whereas a CRT cannot because it does not use pixels to display information.

A CRT monitor can weigh 40 pounds or more depending on the size of the monitor. Whereas an LCD weighs around 8 to 10 pounds.

 LCD monitors are a newer technology and have more demand so will be more expensive than a CRT. 

On a CRT the frame around the glass screen of the monitor causes the view-able area of the screen to be smaller than an LCD. 

 Because of the older technology most CRT monitors will not have as good as quality as picture as most LCD displays. 

 Not all LCD monitors can be viewed at every angle, which makes it difficult for anyone who is not in front of the monitor to see the screen. Whereas a CRT can be viewed from any angle.

Most CRT monitors have a glass screen, which can cause much more glare than an LCD which uses polarizing film.

If the same image is left on a CRT for days the image can burn into the display causing a permanent ghost image to appear on the screen. Whereas this cannot happen in an LCD since it doesn't use gas filled tubes to produce the image.

Some people can see the flicker in a CRT monitor, which is due in part to the refresh rate of the screen refreshing the image. Whereas this is less likely to happen since most LCDs run on 60fps.

 A 17" CRT monitor will use as much as 80 watts, depending on the age. Whereas LCD monitors are very energy efficient. A 19" LCD monitor only uses about 17 to 31 watts on average. ]]> 2017-10-02 12:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mcc17004607/ffowbpw8r761/wish/192947282 Laser and Inkjet printers Limitations car17003323 https://padlet.com/mcc17004607/ffowbpw8r761/wish/192947286 Inkjet prints are slower than laser printers as on average they can only produce 16 ppm (pages per minute). Where as a laser printer can print between 15 to 100 ppm.
Inkjet cartridges are expensive and have to be replace frequently due to low-yield consumables. 
After creating images or documents you must wait till they are dry and have a small risk of smudging compare to a laser printer
Laser printers can only handle simple graphics whereas a Inkjet printer can produce photo quality prints.
Laser cannot print in the same variety of paper like a inkjet can, inkjet can print on glossy photo paper, textured stationery and fabrics.
Laser printers can be heavy and take up a lot of desk space or room in the office compare to a low-end inkjet which are small.

]]> 2017-10-02 12:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mcc17004607/ffowbpw8r761/wish/192947286 Illustrator and Photoshop viren_vaghadia https://padlet.com/mcc17004607/ffowbpw8r761/wish/192950036 What is Adobe Illustrator?
Adobe Illustrator is a program that is used by both artists and graphic designers to create vector images.
Limitations of Adobe Illustrator 
It has a very steep learning curve- Unless you're already familiar with one of the previous versions of this product, it is going to take you some time to get up to speed. Even with the latest release, more than a few veterans of this product have found that they need to spend more time with the product to get to know many of the newer features
You've got to have an eye for the fine details of your art- You can create a very realistic photo-quality drawing with Adobe Illustrator. This also requires an enormous level of patience on the designer's part and you need to have the ability to see the fine details in their work. It is not an application to use if you need to be able to design something in the next 5-10 minutes
There is limited photo editing- You are able to get good vector support, the page layouts are pretty good in Adobe Illustrator and you can't beat its special effects but for that final level of touch-up work you need to look elsewhere to get what you need
It does not handle pixel art- Adobe Illustrator does not deal with pixels very well so if you want to include pixel art Adobe Illustrator may not allow you to do so
What is Adobe Photoshop?
Adobe Photoshop is the predominant photo editing and manipulation software on the market. It uses a range from full featured editing of large batches of photos to create intricate digital paintings and drawings that mimic those done by hand
Limitations of Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is relatively simple to use but it is not a program designed for beginners, it is primarily a photo editing program for the professionals that plan on editing many photos on a regular basis. There are many different tools that do very different things, so you will take a long time to learn how to use each one correctly 
Adobe Photoshop is not free, it is a proprietary software, meaning its source code is a secret. Source code is the code in which any computer program is written by the human programmers
Adobe Photoshop is relatively expensive. When compared with other photo-editing software, it has so many features and it is thus regarding as the industry standard in the graphic designing. You will spend much more for Adobe Photoshop, if you do not plan on editing the photos every day
There are many free and lower cost graphics and photo editors. They are available for the casual users and the enthusiasts who do not need all of the powerful features Photoshop offers
Adobe Photoshop requires a well-equipped computer, it is a heavyweight program and many of the tools are computationally intensive, it takes up a large space of room on your computer as well as RAM memory.

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