scottie said:
a12331 said:
scottie said:
a12331 said:
this is the real reason why you lose the space, the 1000 mb = 1 gb is a way to rip consumers off, sad part is that operating systems are now reading a gb as 1000 mb, snow leopard.
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And rightly so
Sure it would be ideal if they used the Gibibyte, and refered to it as such. But surely using the gigabyte and refering to it as the gigabyte (ie snow leopard) is better than using the gibibyte and refering to it as a gigabyte (Tiger, Leopard, XP, Vista, Windows 7)?
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i dont know about that, i mean binary is the the format that computers read, and under binary 1 gb = 1024 mb
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The gigabyte is an SI-multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. Since the giga- prefix means 109, gigabyte means 1000000000bytes (10003, 109).
However, this term is often colloquially used for or confused with the concept of a gibibyte, meaning 1073741824bytes (10243, 230).
- wiki
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However, due to historical usage in computer-related fields it is still often used to represent 220(1024×1024 or 1048576) bytes
wiki for megabyte
lol the main reason i like one gb = 1024 mb is because we can use one term and it would match ram.
