Computer hardware assignment
From WLCS
Objective:
- You will learn the different parts of a personal computer
- You will learn to find computer parts online
- You will compare and contrast pricing of building your own PC vs. buying one prebuilt
Resources:
Procedures:
- Go to a computer retailer's website (e.g. Dell, HP, Sony, Apple, etc.)
- Find a desktop computer that you would be interested in purchasing
- Look for the computer's "technical specifications"
- Bookmark or save the link
- Open a Google Spreadsheet document
- Name the spreadsheet Computer Hardware Assignment
- Paste the link to the computer that you found in the Google spreadsheet
- Create 3 different headers: Component, Make/Model, Cost
- Paste the following into the Component column of your spreadsheet:
- Motherboard
- CPU
- RAM (memory)
- Hard drive
- Video/graphics card
- CD/DVD burner
- Case
- Power supply
- Monitor
- Keyboard
- Mouse
- Using Newegg, find the components of your pre-built machine
- Make sure that your components "match" up with the motherboard
- For each part, copy and paste the following into your document:
- The full name of the part (including make and model)
- The cost
- After you have "purchased" all the parts, at the bottom of the spreadsheet, show the total cost of your machine
- What was the cost of the original computer? Show the difference in Excel
- Copy and paste the entire spreadsheet to your blog