From the course: Help Desk Handbook for End Users: PC Basics, Hardware, Operating Systems, and Applications
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AMA: Ask me anything about system hardware
From the course: Help Desk Handbook for End Users: PC Basics, Hardware, Operating Systems, and Applications
AMA: Ask me anything about system hardware
- I wanted to take some time to hear from you and answer questions you might have on IT fundamentals or computer literacy. So that's why we put together these ask me anything episodes. My friend Erin is going to ask questions about stuff in this chapter from viewers like you. I also want to hear from you as well. My email is at the end of the episode. Ask me anything. - So, my geeky neighbor keeps talking about the four core CPU, what is that? (laughter) - So, the CPUs, the central processing unit, the thing that does the most work, the brains of the computer, I talked about it in other episodes and in the book as kind of a singular thing. Modern processors, though, they are able to put that processing component, not just one or two, but four, six, even eight different processors on one little chip. - [Erin] Wow. - And they all work together to make magic happen. - [Erin] Okay. - So your geeky neighbor is proud of his four cores and that's cool. - Awesome, okay, Bill W. in…
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