RAM (Random Access Memory)
- RAM is like a small area of temorary storage. If you start a program, in my example i'll choose Microsoft Paint, it needs a certan amount of ram to run. Everything you draw or type in Microsoft Paint will be stored in the little RAM chips on your motherboard. Why? If, every time you changed something, it had to save it to your big clunky hard drive, that would take a LONG time. Instead, the `small changes' you make like typing a document or painting a picture, will be stored in RAM untill you save it to a file on your hard drive. After you turn off your computer, all the ram is deleted. If you close the program you were using, all the ram it took up is now free.
Think about it - All the stuff you do, all the stuff you type, draw, open... It has to be stored somewhere right? It can't just be saved into the very fabric of spacetime. All the windows open and everything on your screen right now and everything your doing at the moment has to be saved somewhere, so its saved in the superfast RAM chips inside your computer.
MOBO (Mother Board)
- Your motherboard is actually a very simple peice of equipment. Its the largest silicon chip inside your computer. Every component is connected to it, and it connects everything to where it needs to go.
PROC (Processor)
- Your processor is the heart of your computer. It handles EVERY SINGLE CALCULATION. Every key you press, every window you maximize or close, even when a program starts, THOUSANDS OF CALCULATIONS run through the processor. Your processor does alomost everything, then sends it to the place it needs to go. Theres no real other way to explain it. Your processor is the miracle of computing technology that revelotionized our world.
HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
- A hard drive is like a compact disk inside your computer that can't be removed. It holds the files on your computer so you can open them. The data on hard drives lasts forever and can be activly created or deleted by the person using the computer. Your harddrive contains Windows or Macintosh or whatever your computer runs, as well as all the programs and documents and files on your computer. Anything in your desktop or start menu is stored on your harddrive.
That's all I can think to explain for now, if you need any more definitions just post
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