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timmah on 30 January 2013
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dsgrue3 said:
timmah said:

Wow, you really don't get it. They're not advertising free space, they're advertising raw capacity. This is the industry standard for how hard disk space is measured and advertised across the entire industry. This line of thinking has been tried before in lawsuits against PC manufacturers and gotten nowhere.

Bolded is completely irrelevant. This is a tablet. Do you have lawsuits on hand about tablets?

It's a PC (personal computer) running a full PC operating system. Tablet is just a form factor, much like laptop, ultrabook, ultrabook convertible (tablet and laptop hybrid), netbook, desktop, minitower, all-in-one, small form factor, etc. It has the same basic components & software as an ultrabook: intel processor, motherboard, cooling, ram, SSD, and preinstalled OS. The fact that it's in a different type of case changes nothing, it is a PC. A 32GB iPad only allows the user access to 28-30GB of storage. Smaller loss for a smaller OS. 32GB in this case refers to raw capacity, the OS taking up some space is a given. If the OS is larger, the space taken up is larger, since it is advertised to come with Windows 8, we can assume the same mathematics that apply to a Windows 8 PC would also apply here (since it is a Windows 8 PC in a tablet form factor). It's certainly possible that somebody could sue and win (dumber lawsuits have been won), but if this is false advertising, so is the entire PC/Mac sales industry.