In terms of the speed of a computer's CPU, the frequency represents how many processor cycles the CPU goes through every second. Frequency is measured in "Hertz", (or Hz,) which is 1 cycle per second. The Prefix "G" stands for "Giga-", or, 1,000,000,000. Thus, one GigaHertz (GHz) is equal to 1 billion cycles per second; (thats a lot of cycles).
About ten or twelve years ago, processors could only carry out one instruction per processor cycle. Nowadays, most CPU's are optimized to be able to carry out two or more instructions per cycle, if they are simple enough instructions.
There are a lot of arcane conventions regarding computer data storage, and transmission. You probably already know that computers store and use information in the form of "binary" numbers. These are numbers consisting of only the digits 1 and 0, representing either "on" or "off"; e.g: 101101111010.
Now I am not going to go into the details of binary logic. Suffice it to say that one binary digit is called a "bit", and four binary digits is called a "Byte."
Normally, the prefixes k, M, and G, stand for 1 thousand, one million, and one billion, respectively. But the binary system does not use powers of 10, but powers of 2. Thus 1 "kilobyte" (kB) = 1024 bytes, 1 "megabyte" (MB) = 1024 kB = 1,048,576 bytes, and 1 "gigabyte" (GB) = 1024 MB = 1,073,741,824 bytes..... (thats a lot of bytes)
The next prefix in line is "Tera-" (T). In base ten, Tera equals 1 trillion, but in terms of binary, a "terabyte" = 1,024 GB, or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes......
I hope that is not too confusing....
~Donkey Hotei
2007-03-02 10:19:24
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answered by WOMBAT, Manliness Expert 7
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1.6 GHz mean that the Processor clock ticks 1,600,000,000 times per second
1.025 GB means 1,025,000,000 Bytes of information
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100 GB Hard disc is a Hard Drive with 100,000,000,000 Bytes of starage space.
1 byte = 1 character
2007-03-02 17:38:00
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answered by rj_mathis@sbcglobal.net 2
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The frequency refers to the speed of your pc, current pc's run at 3 - 4 GHz. Storage, a strange term for it, but i believe it refers to your RAM, random access memory, which is used to run programs on your pc without having to use the much slower hard disk. Hard Disk is the memory used to store programs and data such as your pics and emails.
2007-03-02 17:38:35
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answered by Anonymous
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1.6 GHz is the processor speed, 1025 GB is your RAM size, not storage, 100 GB is your hard drive size
2007-03-02 17:35:38
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answered by Nightmare 2
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- 1.6GHZ = the speed of the computer. 1.6 is actually kinda slow nowadays. Anything over 2 is good.
- 1.025GB = size of the memory. That's actually really good amount.
100GB = size of the harddisk. Which means you can basically store 100GB of movies, music, programs, photos or whatever on your computer. 1GB = 1,000MB.
Good luck!
2007-03-02 17:36:37
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answered by BlueEyez84 1
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yep. all the other answers are right but may suggest you upgrade you processor. the rest of the specs are AWSOME NO NEED TO GET RID OF THOSE. OTHER THEN UR CPU SPEED GREAT PC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-03-02 17:42:30
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answered by Anonymous
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