pewnypl replied to your post: Macs would report them as 16GB and 4GB
Do you actually know why pretty much everything (HDDs, DVDs, flash drives, memory cards) always reports less memory than its written on them?
Yes. They go by the 1000 mb = 1 gb, when it’s actually 1024 mb = 1 gb.
It’s deeper than that too (1Mb = 1000kb and 1kb = 1000b), but anyways, Macs would report it like that… BECAUSE SOME IDIOT AT APPLE THOUGHT IT’S A GOOD IDEA TO USE THE 1000’s SYSTEM. Like, OK, it reports the capacity as it is written on the storage device. But imagine that you download a 3.1MB file only to discover that after downloading Mac reports it’s size as 3,25MB. And with even bigger differences on higher sizes (1GB file becoming 1,07GB file).
Like, why would anyone think it’s a good idea.
nimhrat said:
Not in Linux! It always show the true amount. //hohoho
