I'm a little new with electronics, so what is '4 bit' or '8 bit' or whatever? Is it the cables or connections or something?
If you haven't found out already from somewhere then:
binary is the language computers use
bits are in binary which is made of 1's and 0's
so a bit = a 1 or 0
so 4 bits = 4 1's or 0's
1= on and 0= off
so wth 4 bits (all of) you would have 0000
a byte is 8 bits and a kilobyte (KB) is 1024 bytes
in counting you would go(with 3 bits for example) 000 001 010 011 100 101 110 111
with binary there are special numbers (2 4 8 16 32 64....)
these are special because 1 bit has 2 possible values(0 and 1), 2 bits has 4 (00 ,01 ,10 and 11) ,3 bits has 8 (000 ,001, 010 ,011 ,100 ,101 ,110 ,111) and so on.....
hope I helped answer your question(sorry if I made it sound more complex than it was and confessing things(I am good at doing that))
if I made a mistake then someone please correct me as this was all(but the spelling of kilobytes) was from memory and may be wrong.