What makes computer powerful?

Answer 1

Well typically a computer is known as "powerful" if it can perform a relatively large number of calculations in a relatively short period of time. Following this definition, the CPU would be what makes a computer powerful (assuming you ignore all the limiting factors of the other hardware).

Answer 2

The word powerful is undefined in Computer Science in the context you are using it. Can you be more specific? If you are asking about performance that is typically measured using benchmark programs and given in units of OPS, IPS, FLOPS, etc. The computers having the highest performance at a given time are called Supercomputers, which by definition must have at least 10 times the performance and memory of the other computers of its time.

Answer 3

A computer's processor and programming enables it to emulate many human activities in mathematics, word processing, and data storage and retrieval. It can do calculations and searches so quickly because it can use simple steps repeatedly at incredible speed. This makes computers fast, accurate, and generally reliable.

• Data stored as digital files takes up an increasingly smaller amount of physical space, enabling ever-increasing volumes of information to be saved and used.
• The transfer of information and correspondence, trivial or vital, can be accomplished swiftly over large distances at a tiny fraction of the cost of paper documents.
• The internet makes available a vast collection of information from many varied sources, much of which was nearly unobtainable until the advent of computer-based communication.

Answer 4

well what makes it run is all the wires in side connect to the computer and the wires in the computer and the moter all get pluged in to the wall and then that's how a computer runs