On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Daniel Gracia Garallar <danie...@electronicagracia.com> wrote: > Manufactures use the 'giga' prefix in the International System meaning. That > said, 1Gb would be 10^9 = 1,000,000,000 bytes. > > Computer programmers, OS and all around computer chit-chat use the prefix > 'giga' to refer 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes. > > IEC recommends calling this GiB, but it's uncommon. > > Today, you could assume safely only manufacturers write Gb in the > International System meaning;
and Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419 -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
