Hardware: Input / Output Devices
HTM 304 Stew Rutledge Jess Culpeper Travis Carlston Kevin Torio Andy Diaz
Input Devices
An
input device is any hardware component that allows you to enter data and instructions onto a computer. Six Widely used input devices are the keyboard, mouse, microphone, scanner, digital camera and PC video camera.
Output Devices
An
output device is any hardware component that conveys information to one or more people. Three commonly used output devices are a printer, a monitor and speakers.
BIOS
Acronym
for basic input/output system, the built-in software that determines what a computer can do without accessing programs from a disk. On PCs, the BIOS contains all the code required to control the keyboard, display screen, disk drives, serial communications, and a number of miscellaneous functions.
Keyboards & Mice
Logitech Microsoft Dynex Kensington Rocketfish Apple Targus Razer Spectra Dynamism Ideazon Saitek Thanko
$18.99-$199.99 $29.99-$142.99 $16.49-$53.99 $29.99-$69.99 $18.99-$99.99 $29.99-$69.99 $24.99-$43.99 $56.99-$94.99 $7.99-$25.99 $79.99-$179.99 $39.99 $69.99 $44.99
Scanners
Epson $104.99-$549.99 Hewlett $99.99-$199.99 -Packard Xerox $332.49-$995.99 Canon $159.99 Neat Receipts $199.99 Visioneer $75.99
Microphones
Sony $49.99-$75.99 Cyber Acoustics $16.99 Logitech $31.99 Rocketfish $24.99 Shure $121.94
Monitors
LG $209.99-$499.99 Samsung $249.99-$549.99 Hewlett $199.99-$599.99 -Packard Acer $199.99-$549.99 Envision $169.99-$279.99 Westinghouse $209.99-$549.99 Gateway $199.99-$679.99 eMachines $114.99-$209.99 Apple $599.99-$899.99 Compaq $114.99 Mag $249.99 Velocity Micro $369.99
Printers
Hewlett -Packard Canon Brother Epson Panasonic Lexmark Kodak Samsung
$49.99-$699.99 $49.99-$849.99 $99.99-$399.99 $89.99-$399.99 $299.99 $89.99-$249.99 $149.99-$299.99 $249.99
Speakers
Logitech $52.99-$79.99 Cyber Acoustics $14.99 Insignia $22.99-$49.99 Altec Lansing $99.99 Rocketfish $49.99-$79.99 Bose $99.99-$399.99
Slide Projectors
Optoma Epson InFocus Sharp Toshiba
$699.99-$1799.99 $599.99-$1349.99 $599.99-$949.99 $799.99-$899.99 $899.99-$1299.00
Cost Effective Routes for I/O Devices
Whether the use of a I/O device is for the office secretary, the store manager or the home entertainment buff and gamer. Input and Output devices no matter their purpose have a number a routes that these users can go to get the devices for better than average prices. Most of the data that I collected I obtain from browsing BestBuys website.
-Home UsersHome Users can purchase a television with HDMI inputs so that the T.V. can double as a monitor as well.
Insigna 26 flat screen HD television with 2 HDMI inputs $522.99
LG 24 widescreen flat-panel LCD monitor $499.99
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Home users can also purchase in bundles instead of items individually. Such as a Mouse and Keyboard bundle where you get both together instead of buying them by themselves.
-Office Use (Secretary)Along with the home use the secretary as well could take advantage of the keyboard and mouse combo but along with that for document use in the office she could look for all-in-one printer, scanner and fax machine.
When compared to the cheapest scanner, laser printer and fax whose prices follow: $75.99, $125.99 and $59.99. The all-in-one is a much better deal and price for office use.
Brother All-In-One laser printer, scanner and fax machine. $199.99
Store Manager
Store mangers if handy and price conscious would probably think to look for the best prices on equipment needed. If they were to look on the internet for a new Bar-Code Scanner then they would find there are quite a few bargains to be
found.
Scanners can be found online from $15.00 to $500.
