Have you ever wondered about the pieces in your Computer? Laptop or Desktop, they all have similar components. There is a slight difference between the two, yet when talking about them you can talk about one part for both types of computer. By reading this series of articles, I will hopefully inform you all of what is really going on in that little machine you’re reading this from, unless of course you reading this from the paper copy, but that’s beside the point.
Computers are wild pieces of machinery. You may not think about it, but 4K displays actually have over 8.2 Million pixels per square inch: imagine that, 8.2 million little lights able to flash a different color. Oh, and another thing that might interest you is that a normal monitor has a Refresh Rate of 30. You might be asking yourself, “what does this number mean?” Well, 30 is the number of times the pixels on your monitor will change a color per second, so if you are watching a fast-moving video where each pixel changes on the screen for 1 second, you have 248.8 Million different colored pixels per inch. Think about that!
Let’s scale that back a little bit more. The resolution of a chromebook screen, like the one you are given, is 1366 by 768, so if we do a little math, we can figure out that on your whole Chromebook screen there are 1,049,088 pixels, with a Refresh Rate of 30 (also known as 30 FPS). So after some calculations, you could figure out that the pixels on your screen have refreshed or changed around 3.7 billion times since you started reading this article.
So, I hope you have learned something. Future articles in this series will allow you to learn something like in this one. This is just an inkling into the great world of computers…