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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1361752"><p>Actually, the reason Apple switched to the way the hard drive manufacturers calculated it was to EASE consumer confusion (as in the 1,000,000,000th "I bought a 500GB hard drive, why does in only report 488.2GB??" question).</p><p></p><p>This only works, of course, if everyone does it.</p><p></p><p>There has also been a movement afoot (not from marketers) to REDEFINE the base2 and base10 terms, thus making a GIGABYTE actually the size Apple and the HD people say, and GIBIBYTE the formerly "correct" 1024-bit definition.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1361752"] Actually, the reason Apple switched to the way the hard drive manufacturers calculated it was to EASE consumer confusion (as in the 1,000,000,000th "I bought a 500GB hard drive, why does in only report 488.2GB??" question). This only works, of course, if everyone does it. There has also been a movement afoot (not from marketers) to REDEFINE the base2 and base10 terms, thus making a GIGABYTE actually the size Apple and the HD people say, and GIBIBYTE the formerly "correct" 1024-bit definition. [/QUOTE]
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