I ordered 800GB, but my HD says 499.72

[pisces89]

Nevermind

 

[Macman756]

Like the other hoards of people who buy macbooks for their graduation/upcoming school semester, I was raised PC.

I ordered an 800GB MacBook Pro and today I was looking at the hard drive specs and says that I have 499.72 GB capacity.

Did I get ripped off? Or are the other 300GB being used somewhere else? Thanks for the help.

There is no such thing as an 800GB hard drive. You have a 500GB hard drive, and actual capacity is 499.72GB

 

[42streetsdown]

ha the post get edited awaay

 

[Makosuke]

There is no such thing as an 800GB hard drive.

This has nothing to do with the question, but I feel driven to mention that, technically, WD's Green lineup includes both an obscure 800GB model and a freakish 808.8GB model (the latter is apparently due to it being a lucky number in China or something).

Those are, of course, desktop drives, and I assume what Macman756 meant was that there are no notebook 800GB drives, and even if there were, Apple does not and never has shipped anything with an 800GB drive in it. The OP was, presumably, just mistaken.