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Sony VAIO VGN-AR520E Laptop The luxuriously designed VAIO AR Digital Studio notebook PC is the ultimate performer. With a 17 WXGA+ display, HDMI output, NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT, you will experience entertainment and gaming like never before Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHZ Hard Drive: 200GB Serial ATA Memory: 2.0GB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHZ Optical Drive: CD/DVD/CDRW/DVDRW Battery Life 3.5hrs Cache: 2MB Advanced Smart Cache Screen: 17.0" WXGA+ XBRITE-ECO (1440 x 900) Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT Graphics Processing Unit 895MB Total Available Graphics Audio: Sony Sound Reality - Audio Enhancer Speakers: Built-in stereo Networking: Fast Ethernet (RJ-45) 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T Integrated V.92/V.90 Modem Ports/Slots: USB 2.0, Firewire 400, Headphones, HDMI Output, S/PDIF Out, ExpressCard Slot Mouse/Pointer: Electro-Static touch pad Keyboard: QWERTY, 86 keys with 2.5mm stroke and OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium    Computer Laptop System Details

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Computer Trivia: Before their advent in to the early 1980s, the only computers one might use if one were privileged were "computer-terminal based" architectures owned by large institutions. In these, the technology was called "computer time share systems", and used mini computers and main frame computers. These central personal computer systems frequently required large rooms — roughly, a handball-court-sized room could hold two to three small mini computers and its associated peripherals, each housed in cabinets much the size of three refrigerators side by side (with blinking lights and tape drives). In that era, mainframe computers occupied whole floors; a big hard disk was a mere 10–20 Megabytes mounted on a cabinet the size of a small chest-type freezer. Earlier PCs were generally called desktop computers, and the slower Pentium-based personal computer of the late 1990s could easily outperform the advanced mini computers of that era.

Since the terms "personal computer" and "PC" have been introduced to vernacular language, their meanings and scope have changed somewhat. The first generations of personal microcomputers were usually sold as kits or merely instructions, and required a somewhat skilled person to assemble and operate them. These were usually called microcomputers, but personal computer was also used. Later generations were sometimes interchangeably called by the names "home computer" and "personal computer." By the mid-1980s, "home computer" was becoming a less common label in favor of "personal computer." These computers were pre-assembled and required little to no technical knowledge to operate. In today's common usage, personal computer and PC usually indicate an IBM PC compatible. Because of this association, some manufacturers of personal computers that are not IBM PCs avoid explicitly using the terms to describe their products.

Inventors of the modern computer:
In July of 1980, IBM representatives met for the first time with Microsoft's Bill Gates to talk about writing an operating system for IBM's new hush-hush "personal" computer. IBM had been observing the growing personal computer market for some time. They had already made one dismal attempt to crack the market with their IBM 5100. At one point, IBM considered buying the fledgling game company Atari to commandeer Atari's early line of personal computers. However, IBM decided to stick with making their own personal computer line and developed a brand new operating system to go with. The secret plans were referred to as "Project Chess". The code name for the new computer was "Acorn". Twelve engineers, led by William C. Lowe, assembled in Boca Raton, Florida, to design and build the "Acorn". On August 12, 1981, IBM released their new computer, re-named the IBM PC. The "PC" stood for "personal computer" making IBM responsible for popularizing the term "PC".

The first IBM PC ran on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor. The PC came equipped with 16 kilobytes of memory, expandable to 256k. The PC came with one or two 160k floppy disk drives and an optional color monitor. The price tag started at $1,565, which would be nearly $4,000 today. What really made the IBM PC different from previous IBM computers was that it was the first one built from off the shelf parts (called open architecture) and marketed by outside distributors (Sears & Roebucks and Computerland). The Intel chip was chosen because IBM had already obtained the rights to manufacture the Intel chips. IBM had used the Intel 8086 for use in its Displaywriter Intelligent Typewriter in exchange for giving Intel the rights to IBM's bubble memory technology.

Less than four months after IBM introduced the PC, Time Magazine named the computer "man of the year" Article by Mary Beelis