How are hardware systems classified?
Hardware systems a classified based on there performance and design capabilities, along with the purpose of what they were built for.
Supercomputer A supercomputer is classified as a supercomputer if it is "used to address the most demanding computing problems". There are many other different definitions of the meaning supercomputer, another term commonly used is "Any computer costing more than $1-3M". |
Portable Computer A portable computer can be classified as a "computer that can be moved from place to place with ease, with the same computation power as a desktop computer". As time went on laptops and the notebooks also became portable computers but today large portable computers still keep the name. |