subject: Post modern Consumers and High Computer Standards [print this page] Post modern Consumers and High Computer Standards
It's the post-modern age and we, the post-modern consumers, consider high-performance a basic and minimal prerequisite when considering the purchase of a product. It's a time when major technology giants battle it out for dominance on the ever-expanding computer market.
Demand breeds supply: this is basic principle on which the entire free economy is based. Consider that over half the entire population of North America own a computer and you can begin to understand just how lucrative, competitive and opportune a market computer manufacturing is.
What does a person want out of a computer? The obvious answer goes something like this: one that isn't so slow that we end up spending our valuable time waiting for programmes or images to load. We want a computer that doesn't become over-burdened when we ask more than basics of it. We are a resource rich, time poor society so anything that can save us the former is going to appeal. This is what Intel had in mind when they designed, redesigned and redesigned again the intel graphics media accelerator.
A graphics media accelerator is a graphics processesor built into motherboard chipsets to reduce cost, power consumption and noise. Early designs of the intel graphics media accelerator supported only a few functions in hardware and relied on the computers Central Processing Unit to handle some of the graphics pipeline, which decreased performance. Unhappy with this Intel re-launched the Intel graphics media accelerator in 2006, improving on areas where it had previously fallen down. This was done by building some of the functions into the hardware. The revamped graphics media accelerator also increased a computer's ability to flexibly switch between graphics-related tasks and video-related tasks.
There are many types of intel graphics media accelerators to suit a vast array of consumer needs. Business requiring greater graphics efficiency will go for higher-end processors, while domestic computer are usually satisfied with low- to middle-end ones.
