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Apple, others sued over hard drive size claims
September 18, 2003 - 17:24 EDT A group of computer owners has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and other personal computers, claiming that their advertising deceptively overstates the true capacity of their hard drives. "According to the lawsuit, computer hard drive capacities are described in promotional material in decimal notation, but the computer reads and writes data to the drives in a binary system," reports Reuters. "The result is that a hard drive described as being 20 gigabytes would actually have only 18.6 gigabytes of readable capacity." Others named in the suit, which was filed earlier this week in Los Angeles Superior Court, are Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba. The lawsuit asks for an injunction against the purportedly unfair marketing practices, an order requiring the defendants to disclose their practices to the public, restitution, disgorgement of ill-gotten profits and attorneys' fees.
My Comments: Ok I do agree I think they should be a bit more upfront with the sizes of the hard drives.. it surprises me everytime for a couple seconds.. then I remember that fact and then I go on. I do not agree about restitution or disgorgement, but I do agree about the attorney's fees and the days in court that these people missed work.. other than that.. it's like Apple Corp. wanting a piece of the pie... it's like many of the lawsuits against Microsoft..
Apple, others sued over hard drive size claims
September 18, 2003 - 17:24 EDT A group of computer owners has filed a class action lawsuit against Apple and other personal computers, claiming that their advertising deceptively overstates the true capacity of their hard drives. "According to the lawsuit, computer hard drive capacities are described in promotional material in decimal notation, but the computer reads and writes data to the drives in a binary system," reports Reuters. "The result is that a hard drive described as being 20 gigabytes would actually have only 18.6 gigabytes of readable capacity." Others named in the suit, which was filed earlier this week in Los Angeles Superior Court, are Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba. The lawsuit asks for an injunction against the purportedly unfair marketing practices, an order requiring the defendants to disclose their practices to the public, restitution, disgorgement of ill-gotten profits and attorneys' fees.
My Comments: Ok I do agree I think they should be a bit more upfront with the sizes of the hard drives.. it surprises me everytime for a couple seconds.. then I remember that fact and then I go on. I do not agree about restitution or disgorgement, but I do agree about the attorney's fees and the days in court that these people missed work.. other than that.. it's like Apple Corp. wanting a piece of the pie... it's like many of the lawsuits against Microsoft..