Today I went to Harvey Norman with my little sister (Kimberley) to help her pick out a new laptop for university as her old one is getting fairly old. She didn’t really know what she was looking for or needed and usually I could ask a staff member on the floor, but to my surprise I knew what most of the computer codes meant. I was pretty proud of myself because I am used to being quite hopeless with this sort of thing, but I understood that RAM was the random access memory, so short term memory, GB means gigabytes, that core i3/i5/i7 tells you how fast the processer is and so on. I know all of these things thanks to a lecture I went to for this unit in week six, where we had a guest speaker come in and explain how a computer works in detail. I never realised how important these things were to know and how helpful knowing this information could be and I am very thankful to this unit for explaining it to me. I will now be able to choose the right laptop or desktop to suit my needs either as a student or teacher in the years to come. J