I want you.... to give me some information

So I'm working on a paper on Moore's law for computer sciences. And by paper I mean rag where I kinda asked some people questions for, yet somehow still magically end up with an A-. Seriously, it's awesome. I once did a project he gave us 3 months for in the 30 minutes between 2 classes at the last possible moment and got a B+.
Anyways, I'm looking at Moore's Law (computer transistors capable to be placed inexpensively doubles every 2 years) in real life. I'm also looking at other things that they say moore's law applies to.

If you would be so kind to fill out these questions(if you don't know everything, you can just skip the ones you don't know. If you know the information of more than one generation back, please give that as well):
1. What is the memory, RAM and power usage of your current computer?
2. What is the memory, RAM and power usage of your previous computer?
3. How long ago did you purchase your current computer
4. How long ago did you purchase your previous computer?
5. What is the amount of pixels of your current digital camera/mobile phone(please specify which one, if both apply, please tell both)?
6. What is the amount of pixels of your previous digital camera/mobile phone?
7. How long ago did you purchase your current mobile phone/camera?
8. How long ago did you purchase your previous mobile phon/camera?
9. Has your budget for these sort of things changed considerably between the purchase of your previous and current appliance?
Notes:
- sorry for the crappy english.
- If you have an external harddrive, please give the info as well, if I get it from enough people, I can integrate it into the paper


Thanks/danke/arigato/merci/bedankt in advance

 

Cool. I like surveys.

1. 750 GB HDD internal, 1x1TB external, 2x250 external (1,5 TB external total), 4 GB RAM, 375 watts.
2. 60 GB HDD, 2 GB RAM, 65 watts
3. October 2008
4. June 2007
5. Camera=10 MP. Phone=3.2 MP
6. Camera=7 MP. Phone=1.3 MP
7. Camera=July 2008. Phone=Dec 2008
8. Camera= Oct 2006. Phone=Oct 2006
9. My budget has increased considerably.

I just noticed this, my purchases are almost exactly 2 years apart... That means I'm due for a new phone and a new camera!!

 

Be sure to add in that story about grains of rice on a chessboard and how it is easy to complete the first row of squares, but the later ones quickly become difficult. Conclude "Moores Law may hold true for now, but as miniaturization reaches the threshold of atomic sizes, the physical medium must then grow in order to encapsulate a sustained growth. But exponential growth of the physical medium is of course an impracticality.

 

I'll try to do that sentence right when translating it into Dutch. Thanks Jasmine

 

You could also talk about how the current process is 32nm, and how silicon atoms are approximately 0.2 nm (200pm) diameter.

Code:

1985	 1500nm  intel 386
2000     200nm  intel Pentium 3
2009      32nm  intel i7

Since the circuit is 2 dimensional, it takes 2+2=4 years to scale both dimensions to half the size.

extrapolating...

2011 22nm (~100 atoms)
2013 16nm (64 atoms)
2015 11nm (48 atoms)
2017 8nm (32 atoms)
2019 6nm (24 atoms)
2021 4nm (16 atoms)
2023 3nm (12 atoms)
2025 2nm (8 atoms)
2027 1.5nm (6 atoms)
2029 1nm (4 atoms)
2031 750pm (3 atoms)
2033 500pm (2 atoms)
2037 250pm (1 atom)
2039 ???

But we don't have to worry about what happens next, because of the killer asteroids in 2030.

 

If i can fit it in, I'll try to(guy wants us to keep our papers short).

all hail jasmine!

 

So, since I had too little information, I needed to rewrite the whole thing. And seeing as what I centered the new thing around, I owe Jasmine a hug and cookies for my B.