On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:52:25 -0700, Doug McNutt <[email protected]> wrote: > At 10:24 -0500 12/3/09, Britt Dodd wrote: > I think its more of a 'dumbing down' for the general public. Personally, I > prefer the 1024 nomenclature to be called megabyte (or gigabyte, etc) > rather than mebibytes, etc... > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Scott Holder > <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: > This is the old Marketing Mega/Gigabyte versus "real" mega/gigabyte > thing. A DVD is 4,699,979,766 bytes. Marketing People divide that by > 1000 to get "4.7gb", which they like because it's bigger. > > But, if you take a "real" megabyte/gigabyte as the computer calls it, > 1024 bytes in a kb, 1024 kb in a megabyte, etc, it's actually 4.4gb > usable data. >
Which is why all storage should be declared in bytes. No numbers fiddling, no questionable prefixes, no confusion. ;-) -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
