Motherboard
A green circuit board that runs across the interior base of the laptop.
What does the motherboard look like?
This component is placed on the motherboard and is the central processing unit for the computer, essentially the brain for the computer.
What is a CPU and where is it placed?
Random Access Memory (RAM)
What is short term storage or memory?
An external power supply, the AC adapter.
What is a laptops Power Supply Unit (PSU)?
A popular port that is both input and output compatible.
What is USB?
Its foundation that holds all of the components of the computer together and allows them to communicate together to function as a whole.
What is the motherboards job?
The heat distributor, typically made from copper and prevents the CPU from overheating.
What is the Heat Sink and what is it typically made of?
A Hard drive.
What is long term storage?
Average voltage after being transformed is 15-20V.
What is the typical voltage after the AC adapter transforms it?
The most significant difference between the two display ports is one is audio and video, while the other is only video.
What is the difference between HDMI and DVI?
Integration, most components are integrated into the motherboard.
How do the different components connect in a laptop?
This heat-sink sends heat to the fan and then out the bottom or the side of the laptop.
Where does the heat-sink send the heat on a laptop?
2.5 inches.
What is the average physical size of an internal laptop hard drive?
The module in between the AC Adapter and battery charger that changes the electricity current.
What is the DC-DC Converter?
By using a low-powered laser beam, this input port writes to a CD by heating the dye layer and changing the reflection of it.
How does an optical drive write to a CD?
Laptop motherboards tend to be smaller than a PC motherboard and have more components that are integrated into the motherboard itself.
How does a laptop motherboard differ from a PC's motherboard?
Where the information the CPU is processing is sent out. This component is the traffic controller in the computer.
What is the chipset's relation to the CPU?
This component stores working data and machine code.
What is the purpose of RAM?
Excess gas building up within the battery cells will cause this.
How does a laptop battery bubble and bulge?
The third ring on this audio port means that it is meant to have a microphone as well as left and right audio.
What is the difference between a 2-ring audio jack and a 3-ring?
There are no form factors for laptop motherboards like there is for PCs. The laptop’s motherboard is specific to how the manufactures made it.
What are the different form factors of laptop motherboard?
Typically 55 to 60 degrees Celsius in a laptop.
What is the average temperature a laptop CPU runs at?
NVMe SSD. An NVMe is 22 times faster than a hard drive at 3500 mbps.
What is the fastest storage option available for a laptop?
This part of the electrical system that supplies the battery with charge is actually located within the laptop, not in the AC Adapter.
Where is the battery charger located?
By assigning a certain voltage to each bit of data a packet is sent over the Ethernet cable. When the packet gets to the modem, the modem reads the voltage and designates a 1 or 0 to it.
How is a packet sent over an Ethernet cable?