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iPad Real storage in iPad Air 2
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Wow! So 16gb version will have just 4gb out of box! Now I understand all the complaints about 16gb as base model.
Haha it may seem that way but not necessarily. You will get around 11 to 12gb to use with a 16 gb model.
Not really. When Apple is saying that you have 64gb, you don't actually have 64, but around 59gb available. The same is true with hard disk manufacturers. 256gb hdd is actually around 250gb actual space.
The rest is taken up by iOS
I thought Apple has used 'giga' nomenclature instead 'gibi' one since Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Anyway, 4gb are due to iWork and iLife.
They are referring to the same thing. Just some marketing b$ to make apple's sound cooler. xD
Not quite, tech companies are a bit deceiving when they're telling you how much storage they have. When they say something has 64GB they say 1GB is equivalent to 1,000,000,000 bytes. So 64GB to them is 64,000,000,000 bytes... but that's actually not the case, it really is 1MB = 1024KB, 1GB = 1024MB, etc. So 64,000,000,000 bytes is actually 59.6GB, and that's how much you get out of the box minus the few gigs of the OS + I'm gonna guess caching and the "other" files on the iPad and you end up with 51. So 16GB would be 14.9GB out of the box before OS and the rest.
Well, but if I have 51.7GB out of the box, as I really bought a 59.6GB iPad, we can assume the OS and the Apple apps sum around 8GB. So, because the 16GB also includes that software, it will have ~15-8=7GB?
So that includes iWork and iLife as its preinstalled? Thats a good chunk of space. Ofc, you can delete those apps.
In that case it sounds reasonable. I believe when I formatted my iPad (installed without iWork and iLife) it was 55.5GB.
That sounds very reasonable, because iWork and iLife take around 4GB. The left MB will depend on what information have been synchronized via iCloud.
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What??? How many free space will have 64GB the Surface Pro 3?
I was actually looking at old numbers. Free space with the 128 surface 3 improved to 97gb, but the 64gb version only has a pathetic 37gb free.
Pathetic is indeed the right word. The best thing is that I was about to buy the Surface Pro 3 instead the iPad Air 2!!!!!!
Forgot to include this in my last post. It compares the storage of all the models.
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/storage
The funny thing is that the iWorks and iLife (GarageBand and iMovie, iPhoto is gone) suites are only preinstalled on the 64GB and 128GB models. That goes for the iPhones too.
It's more a sad thing than a funny thing. Apple really should've made the base 32GB. Of course a lot of people would be happy with 32GB and not fork over the extra $100, myself included That's $100 x many millions. Such a slick move by Apple..
It's more a sad thing than a funny thing. Apple really should've made the base 32GB. Of course a lot of people would be happy with 32GB and not fork over the extra $100, myself included
That's $100 x many millions. Such a slick move by Apple..It's more a sad thing than a funny thing. Apple really should've made the base 32GB. Of course a lot of people would be happy with 32GB and not fork over the extra $100, myself included
That would have been my case. 32GB was what I was looking for.
Though to be fair, Windows takes a lot more space simply because it is a desktop operating system. You cannot compare Windows 8.1 to iOS since they are completely different from each other.
but again, sp3 has a full "real" os.. cant really compare between the real windows os and ios.