Motherboard
What does the motherboard look like?
What is a green panel that runs across the interior base of the laptop
What is a CPU and where is it placed?
What is, the CPU is the central processing unit for the computer, essentially the brain for the computer. It is located on the motherboard.
What is short term storage or memory?
What is RAM
What is a laptops Power Supply Unit (PSU)?
What is, an external battery-based power supply, charged by the AC adapter.
What is USB?
What is, a popular port that is both input and output compatible.
What is the motherboards job?
What is the foundation that holds all the components of the computer together and allows them to communicate together to function as a whole.
What is the Heat Sink and what is it typically made of?
What is, the heat distributor typically made from copper and prevents the CPU from overheating.
What is long term storage?
What is a Hard drive.
What is the typical voltage after the AC adapter transforms it?
What is, average is 15-20V
What is the difference between HDMI and DVI?
What is, the most significant difference between the two display ports is one is audio and video, while the other is only video.
How do the different components connect together in a laptop?
What is integration, most components are somehow integrated into the motherboard.
Where does the heat-sink send the heat in a laptop?
What is, to the fan and then out the bottom or the side of the laptop.
What is the average physical size of an internal laptop hard drive?
What is 2.5 inches.
What is the DC-DC Converter?
What is, the module in between the AC Adapter and battery charger that changes the electricity current.
How does an optical drive write to a CD?
What is, 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 is a laptop motherboard different from desktop or tower?
What is, Laptops motherboards tend to be smaller and have more components that are integrated into the motherboard itself.
What is the chipsets relation to the CPU?
What is, where the information the CPU is processing is sent out. The chipset is the traffic controller in the computer.
What is the purpose of ram in a laptop?
What is storing working data and machine code.
How does a laptop battery bubble and bulge?
What is, excess gas building up within the battery will cause this.
What is the difference between a 2-ring audio jack and a 3-ring?
What is, the third ring on this audio port means that it is meant to have a microphone as well as left and right audio.
What are the different form factors of laptop motherboard?
What is, 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 is the average temperature a laptop CPU runs at?
What is 55 to 60 degrees Celsius.
What is the fastest storage option for a laptop?
What is an NVMe SSD. An NVMe SSD is 22 times faster than a hard drive at 3500 mbps.
Where is the battery charger located?
How is a packet sent over an Ethernet cable?
What is, 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.