Which means you have hardly any music on your computer unlike the rest of the world haha.
Ive got 25gb of music on iTunes which is about a fourth of what most of my friends have.
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I paid for 32 GB and got 28.77 GB!!!
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Which means you have hardly any music on your computer unlike the rest of the world haha.
Ive got 25gb of music on iTunes which is about a fourth of what most of my friends have.
Easy with my example. I have 400+GB of Music....and I'm shipping out the end of July....no hope of hauling that music on just my iPhone
I can understand this, but that's why people get iPods with tons of storage space. I have music on mine, but I don't overdo it.
True, but I'd rather carry one device, instead of 2....but with the size of storage I'd like to have, the iPhone would have to be the size of a brick.
Seriously? Just subscribe to a handful of hour-long audio podcast and a handful of medium-length video podcasts and set it up to store even just the latest 3 episodes. Your 8 GB wouldn't be able to fit even that.
Only black & white options are racist?
OMG! That's it! Must be. I mean ,really...why can't they offer a rainbow of colors for diversity?
But he should know this already, unless the OP wasn't alive in the early days of Windows 95, or has never bought an HDD or Flash Drive, etc.
It's not like the information is new to the world.
Again, I had to giggle. And here I am dumping all the music on my 8gb 3G just so I can sync stupid 1.35 gigs of TomTom app before updating to the iPhone 4.
Can't wait for my 32gb to come tomorrow. Pared down my boatload of music to 7 gigs of "essentials", and I'm good to go with space for video, photos, and apps. Missed not having music on my iPhone.
Poor guy though - hope he never gets a 500gb hard drive and comes home and sees how much he *really* has
Can't wait for my 32gb to come tomorrow. Pared down my boatload of music to 7 gigs of "essentials", and I'm good to go with space for video, photos, and apps.
Missed not having music on my iPhone.Poor guy though - hope he never gets a 500gb hard drive and comes home and sees how much he *really* has
Poor guy though - hope he never gets a 500gb hard drive and comes home and sees how much he *really* has
You should have seen my wife's face when I built a 10TB file server and she saw the "actual capacity".
It still confuses her.
Poor guy though - hope he never gets a 500gb hard drive and comes home and sees how much he *really* has
I was thinking 1TB drive...
Lol
Its been like that forever with all storage media.
It's actually pretty simple stuff. Computers use a binary number system! Basically everything is 2 to the power of some number:
2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512 1024, 2048... and so on. If you look through that list you'll notice a few common computer numbers. (e.g. 512 mb of ram, ever wondered why its 512 not 500? or why 2Gb of ram is actually 2048 megabytes?).
So basically there are 1024 bytes in a kilobyte, 1024 kilobytes in a megabyte and 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte. So 500 gigabytes is actually 500 x 1024 megabytes which equals 512000 megabytes or 512000 x 1024 kilobytes which equals 524288000 kilobytes.
Now in the normal decimal system kilo means 1000, mega means a million etc.
So for example what the manufacturers sell is 640 gigabytes using the "decimal" giga, not the "binary" giga:
640 x 1000 = 640 000 "megabytes"
640000 x 1000 = 640 000 000 "kilobytes"
640 000 000 x 1000 = 640 000 000 000 "bytes"
BUT the computer reads this number in binary! So 640 000 000 000 bytes divided by 1024 = 625 000 000 kilobytes, not 640 000 000!
625 000 000 divided by 1024 = 610 351.56 megabytes
610 351.5625 divided by 1024 = 596.04 gigabytes.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the OS is taking up some of the OP's harddrive space.
the post wasn't supposed to be 100% serious
i was reading the ifixit teardown and saw the 28.77 GB storage space so thought i'd let everybody know
i was reading the ifixit teardown and saw the 28.77 GB storage space so thought i'd let everybody know
It has everything to do with the fact the OS doesn't take up the whole "missing capacity"
It kinda sucks that we get 3.23 gigs stolen from us before we even get to use it
Was your phone ever in Newark?
the post wasn't supposed to be 100% serious
i was reading the ifixit teardown and saw the 28.77 GB storage space so thought i'd let everybody know
Good. I was about to be concerned there for a minute. You are a veteran poster here. I was thinking we had a problem.
Actually isn't it the fact that 1000mb is calculated differently from 1024mb? I think I saw that somewhere...
HA! Mine went through Newark today. When I get it I'll be sure to check for any missing Gigabytes. They're sly down there...
Yeah, but the OS only accounts for a small fraction of the "missing" space. The rest is "lost" in the conversion.