TABLE 1 Examples of Computer System Capacity and Performance
| Components | Units | Workstation | Laptop | Palmtop/Personal Digital Assistant |
| Processor | Instructions/second | 100M | 10M | 1M |
| Random access memory | Bytes | 64M | 8M | 1M |
| Disk memory | Bytes | 600M | 100M | — |
| Display | Pixels | 1M | 0.18M | 0.045M |
| Network communications | Bits/second | 10M | 2M | 0.02M |
| Distance | Meters | — | 100 | 10 |
| Energy | 1/kW | 5 | 100 | 500 |
| Physical size | (Weight × volume) 1/kg × m3 | 1 | 16 | 2,000 |