160Gb?

[hansinderen]

ok so i just got my new macbook ! i'm very pleased with this product and i like everthing bout it thus far, but when i checked my harddisk it said capacity 148 GB, thats no 160GB, am i the only one having this or is this standard?

 

[vincenz]

You have to take into account the space needed to install the operating system and all the other settings & miscellany. 148 GB starting out is correct.

 

[jaytv111]

ok so i just got my new macbook ! i'm very pleased with this product and i like everthing bout it thus far, but when i checked my harddisk it said capacity 148 GB, thats no 160GB, am i the only one having this or is this standard?

every hard drive has this "problem", it's just how gigabytes are defined according to the manufacturer.

 

[chrmjenkins]

Hard drive makers incorrectly advertise space to begin with. A gigabyte proper is 2^30 bytes. However, they use 10^9 bytes, which is literally a billion bytes.

160*.93 ~ 149GBs.

 

[hansinderen]

allright thanks alot