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I paid for 32 GB and got 28.77 GB!!!
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It's hilarious how some people thought it impossible to fill up a 32GB device. I love music and could easily fill the whole phone plus two more with all the mp3's i'v got. When I meet someone that isn't into music in the slightest, I worry they are a serial killer.
It kinda sucks that we get 3.23 gigs stolen from us before we even get to use it
Return it. It might be defective
ha what people cant fill a 32? come on now
i just got the 16 because i know i cant fit a 32 and id rather save a 100. usually just put music that i havent listened to on my phone and store everything on the ipod. running close to 90 gigs on music alone
i just got the 16 because i know i cant fit a 32 and id rather save a 100. usually just put music that i havent listened to on my phone and store everything on the ipod. running close to 90 gigs on music alone
Return it. It might be defective
Someone should record a call to Applecare with a customer demanding they send them the missing capacity.
Poor guy though - hope he never gets a 500gb hard drive and comes home and sees how much he *really* has
Or a 1TB and he looks on my computer and sees only 931GB's
I filled my 160GB iPod Classic when I had it.
32GBs to me is a difficult battle of picking and choosing music.
Fully wrong. I have a decent size library of 'digital copy' movies that come with my blu-rays. I could maybe fit half of them on my phone, and that's without syncing any of my music or anything else.
I fill a 32 gig drive easily. Full seasons of The Simpsons in HD, Avatar, tons of music, tons of apps. All the more reason it sucks Apple didnt offer a 64 gig option.
And I love it when people claim the 3 gig is being used for the OS and installed apps. Ummm no it isn't. If it was, an 8 gig phone would only have 5gig of space.
I have an 8gb 3G and have never used more than 3gb at any time. I have never loaded a single song/movie/image/etc on it ever. That's what the iTouch is for. If I want to listen to music I just start Pandora. I hate listening to the same music over and over again. No, i'm not under utilizing the phone.
To be fair though OSX Snow Leopard reads a 250GB drive as exactly 250GBs (I don't remember why), it would be nice if iOS did this as well.
I could fill up three 32GB iPhones with my music alone not to mention that I also have 3TB drives filled with iTunes movies and TV shows.
It kinda sucks that we get 3.23 gigs stolen from us before we even get to use it
Funny cause when I sold my 32GB 3GS to this lady the other day I'm sitting there trying to make her understand how they count GB compared to the actual number.
The OP must never have checked his hard drive. Until Snow Leopard came out, a 1TB drive reported as something like 933GB. That would mean 77GB is missing but it's all in the way that space is counted. People don't realize that and think they are being cheated.
It kinda sucks that we get 3.23 gigs stolen from us before we even get to use it
You're right, it totally sucks. Send me the phone, I don't need that much space. Thanks
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.
FWIW it was nice of you to take the time to explain it to him in such detail. Nice touch.