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A couple of problems so far - 320gb hd showing as 298gb?

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dead goon

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Right, I've just booted up OS X, all lovely, until now.

When I try and connect to my wireless i'm just getting 'connection timeout'
Wireless is up obviously, since i'm posting this from my windows laptop.

Also my Hard drive which should be 320gb is only showing as 298. Where did my other 20gb go?

Sorry if this is the wrong area to post, but I'm a bit frustrated.
 
dead goon said:
Also my Hard drive which should be 320gb is only showing as 298. Where did my other 20gb go?

Sorry if this is the wrong area to post, but I'm a bit frustrated.
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Normal. Between formatting, the difference between decimal and binary, and the OS X install, that's completely normal.
 
dead goon said:
Right, I've just booted up OS X, all lovely, until now.

When I try and connect to my wireless i'm just getting 'connection timeout'
Wireless is up obviously, since i'm posting this from my windows laptop.

Also my Hard drive which should be 320gb is only showing as 298. Where did my other 20gb go?

Sorry if this is the wrong area to post, but I'm a bit frustrated.
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Not sure about the wireless, but the drive size is normal for any computer (PC or Mac). The drive is marketed under 1000 megs = 1 gig when the fact is (with the type of counting currently used) 1024 megs = 1 gig. This will be changing in SL afaik.

Make sure all your updates are done for your machine (plugged directly into your router) and also check for any updates for the router itself.
 
That's normal, Harddrive space always has that type of space taken up by stuff like settings and whatnot, or if you delete something, it goes somewhere in that little space of your harddrive. Don't worry about it, EVERY harddrive or flash drive is like that.
 
sporadicMotion said:
Not sure about the wireless, but the drive size is normal for any computer (PC or Mac). The drive is marketed under 1000 megs = 1 gig when the fact is (with the type of counting currently used) 1024 megs = 1 gig. This will be changing in SL afaik.
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Ummm no. Snow Leopard will take up less room on your HDD not screw up how it counts GBs like HDD manufacturers do.

Edit: scratch that
 
The physical capacity of a drive and the formatted capacity are different. You are not missing 20GB and that 20GB will never be available that is just the way all HD's are on a Mac or PC. My 1TB drive only have 930GB avaliable.

Your wireless maybe related to your router. I would try resetting the router, turn of airport, turn it back on and then reconnect and make sure if you have a password you are typing it in correctly.
Good luck with your new computer!
 
thanks for the help guys. I should of know this because i've seen it before, on my iPod for instances. I just freaked out after taking the thing out of the box :)

I called Apple support about the wireless and they told me to change the channel on the router, and move the cordless phone away from it because its causing interference. Still no luck though.

All going well, just adjusting to the environment.
 
It could very well be the phone. My phone was turning on my TV every time it rang until I moved it about a foot away. But I think that your best option may be to go into System Preferences > Network > Advanced and delete all the networks listed and start over. That has helped me in the past.
 
sporadicMotion said:
Not sure about the wireless, but the drive size is normal for any computer (PC or Mac). The drive is marketed under 1000 megs = 1 gig when the fact is (with the type of counting currently used) 1024 megs = 1 gig. This will be changing in SL afaik.

Make sure all your updates are done for your machine (plugged directly into your router) and also check for any updates for the router itself.
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This is exactly why, everyone else is skirted around it. :)

Your hard drive is advertised as having a 60GB capacity, but your computer shows only 55.8GB. What gives? The discrepancy is the result of having two methods of measuring memory. Computers are binary, or "base two," mathematical systems, and in a binary world a kilobyte is 1024 bytes (2 to the 10th power). When computers were new, the geekerati referred to this as a "kilo." Noncomputer folks, however, understood kilo to mean thousand, and thought that 1000 bytes should equal a kilobyte. So, two different measurements of hard drive space were born. In 1998, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) weighed in, defining 1 "gigabyte" as 1 billion bytes. Hard disk manufacturers agree, marketing their products using the rounder decimal value instead of the binary system. So, your drive is labeled as decimal ("giga") and your PC reads binary (IEC's term, "gibi"). Either way, you're getting the same bunch of bytes.
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http://www.popularmechanics.com/how_to_central/technology/4206535.html
 
If Apple switches counting methods won't this screw up estimating space required on all other storage media and like online download sizes? That's almost 10% difference!

This seems like more trouble then it is worth to make people feel happy that their HDD size is close to what the HDD manufacturer said.

I suppose if everyone else changes to this new 'metric' storage measurement my life would be much easier though.
 
reallynotnick said:
If Apple switches counting methods won't this screw up estimating space required on all other storage media and like online download sizes? That's almost 10% difference!

This seems like more trouble then it is worth to make people feel happy that their HDD size is close to what the HDD manufacturer said.

I suppose if everyone else changes to this new 'metric' storage measurement my life would be much easier though.
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I guess... but really if a program you're installing is lets say 10 gigs according to the minimum requirements, the program will equal out to about 10.24 gigs in metric. So REALLY it doesn't matter too much.

(My math could be wrong... but it's close enough to prove the point I'm sure :p)
 
sporadicMotion said:
I guess... but really if a program you're installing is lets say 10 gigs according to the minimum requirements, the program will equal out to about 10.24 gigs in metric. So REALLY it doesn't matter too much.

(My math could be wrong... but it's close enough to prove the point I'm sure :p)
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No it would be about 11GB, I figured about 10% difference when talking about the 4GB drive in the link. Thing is it is not linear as 1000bytes=1KB and 1000KB=1MB and 1000MB=1GB, so with each jump you get even more messed up.
 
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