This document summarizes the key components and specifications of a laptop computer's hard drive, optical drive, and graphics card. The laptop has a 500GB hard drive that spins at 5400rpm, a DVD Super Multi optical drive, and an integrated graphics card with 1GB of dedicated DDR3 video memory. Hard drive speed, optical drive type, and whether the graphics card is integrated or discrete affect the computer's performance, particularly for tasks like gaming, video editing, and other multimedia processes.

1. Continued The hard drive stores almost all the data required by the computer system including the operating system, applications and user data.This laptop can store 500GB of items (i.e. music, pictures, videos, documents, etc.). Hard drives employ different rotational speeds, which directly affect performance. There are three speeds currently in use 4200rpm, 5400 rpm, and 7200 rpm The laptop’s hard drive is 5400rpm, the middle speed of the three

2. Continued The optical drive is your dvd burner, etc. The optical drive on a laptop is a DVD Super Multi. This means that it can can support both types of DVDs (DVD+R/DVD-R and the other types) The graphics card or video card allows the computer to free up system memory. Contrary to popular belief, graphics cards are not just used for games. For multimedia processing such as editing photos, creating videos, and other multimedia processes, a computer benefits from having a dedicated video card.

3. Graphics/Video Card Continued… Why you may ask? If you use the notebook primarily for document processing, web surfing, chatting, listening to music or watching movies, and even some light gaming, an integrated video card is usually more than good enough. For 3D games or multimedia processing, a discrete video card is usually the better choice. All laptops feature an integrated video card. Integrated video cards feature GPUs integrated directly onto the chipset and require system memory for use as video memory.Discrete video cards feature a dedicated GPU and a local video memory to free up system memory. The gist: If you are going to be doing multimedia projects or processes it is highly beneficial to get a discrete video card to free up system memory and increase the speed This laptop’s video card has 1GB of DDR3 memory which is dedicated to the graphics card only