PCs have become essential to everyday lives of millions of people around the world. Personal computers do almost about everything a person could get it to do. With the many different versions like desktops, laptops and PDAs people can use any version to fit their lifestyle. With the amount of money and time invested in one’s PC, people can’t help but love and depend on their computers for everything. It’s a costly effort to buy a PC but in the long run it does good to own one. So instead of going down to the dirty, virus filled computer labs on a university campus, a bright, young college student wouldn’t have to deal with the hassles of snoopers, they use their own computers to do their work, print papers, watch movies and play games.
Many computers users do many different things with their computers; it all depends on the users taste. College students normal use it to do research and write papers the few days before it’s due. A computer is great for research because to give a college student more sources for their papers and topics. A student could go to Yahoo or a search site an
Probably what most people spend most of their money on after the initial buying of the computer is software. Software is a program that makes the computer do things the user wants. There are programs that will play music and video, edit images or write papers. One of the biggest software would have to be games. Name any kind of game a person could want and there is probably a software disc for it somewhere, and if not a disc it’ll be online. Software is also essential to keeping a computer updated. Many programs like firewalls and anti-virus programs and operating systems need to be updated every few weeks. All the programs updates are downloaded from the internet. If it wasn’t for the internet then there wouldn’t be a need for these programs.
Other things people use their computers for is entertainment. People can listen to their favorite music CD in their computer, by either using a CD or downloading the music off the internet. People can also make their own CD by mixing songs from different CD into on to one CD. Also with certain programs, users can watch their favorite DVD on thei