Can be decided

Desktop :slimline, desktop,
Minitower and full
tower

Partable computers

Laptops, notebooks and subnotebooks

To be used by one person

Small, less expensive

Less powerful than mainframe
or supercomputer

More expensive and more powerful

A single central computer

Acecessed by terminals

Has keyboard and a monitor

To input and view data

Does not have a Microprocessor
or RAM

Cannot Process data

Powerful computers used mainly

Large organizational for critical applications

Typically bulk data processing

Census, indutry and
Consumer statistics

Huge, multi - user systems

To handle gigantic proccessing jobs

Fastest and most powerful mainframe

Among the largest, fastest, most powerful

The order of more than 200 teraflops

Used to tackle problems

Weather forecasting, model climate change.