Nt1330 Unit 3 Assignment 1

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- Portable: 14” display with 1.8kg weight only and it is easy to bring outside.
- Excellent performance: powered by Intel i3-6100U CPU with 4GB RAM, which has a good CPU speed and can perform well on the daily computing tasks in his campus life.
- User friendly: Windows 10 Home has preinstalled as the operating system, which is functional and easy to use.
- Long-lasting battery: nice endurance, which can use continuously 3-4 hours without charging when the laptop is fully-charged with its built-in 3 cell 36 Whrs battery.
- Large storage: my cousin can download the software and save the documents he need with the 1TB SATA hard drive disk storage.

Question 1(c)
The list of software I recommend that suitable to my cousin new computer,
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- Security: it is more secure, because all of the users can view and modify the open-source software, when an errors or omissions has found, another user can fix, update, and upgrade it by using less time than they can proprietary software.
- No imposed upgrade: some software always force the users keep upgrade and the proprietary software’s vendors may stop supporting the software if you don’t update the software to the latest version, however open-source software don’t.
- Transparency: the open-source software show out the full visibility of the open source code base so that you can see exactly what you are going and protect against lock-in risks.
- Fully user-oriented: open-source software more likely to provide what the user needs and wants, because the creator of the software often ends users themselves.

Question 1(e)
The risks associated with open-source software:
- Most of the users haven’t read through the terms and conditions before using open-source software and they may obey the terms and conditions of it. This may cause them will facing some unwanted problems when they obey the