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sdracup · 11 years ago · FIRST

Omg yes!!

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cookiejar5051 · 11 years ago

It does that on my ipad, which is super annoying.

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pebbleinthepond · 11 years ago

You guys do know it has to do this right?

shadowstorm197 · 11 years ago

Technically they could put 17.5 gb on the drive so you'd have 16 gb

guest · 11 years ago

OR they could put 14GB and a person would go "Wow, free 500MB!"

pebbleinthepond · 11 years ago

They could but they don't

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guest · 11 years ago

the 1.5 GB is for NSA

shadowstorm197 · 11 years ago

More like 4 zettabytes.
Which is 4000 petabytes
Which is 4000000 terabytes
Which is 4000000000 gigabytes

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smitty · 11 years ago

And that people, is the difference between engineering math and marketing math.

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pikalink1239 · 11 years ago

I really hate that! I tried to put a file on there and I thought it would fit but it didn't.

missraven · 11 years ago

You know what really grindS my gears? >>

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thefandomisrising · 10 years ago

My iPod does this, it says 32GB, but it's 28.5GB. The best I can figure, is that the software takes up 3.5GB.

smitty · 10 years ago

See above... the design engineers count in binary and base eight. The marketing department counts in base ten and also rounds up numbers.
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Yes, the OS will take up a bit of memory, but not 3.5 GB worth for a portable device.

guest · 6 years ago

It's because of the base 10 to base 8 conversion

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