This isn't anything new, I recall the same type of controversy when 20MB hard drives came on the market.
Am I over sensitive to marketing bullshit, or isn't it time we got what we pay for?
Hey, memory manufacturers, how about calling it like it is? This is a 59.6GB memory card, and if you want to sell it as a 64 something, then advertise it as a 64 000 000 000 bytes card!
Hey, memory manufacturers, how about calling it like it is? This is a 59.6GB memory card, and if you want to sell it as a 64 something, then advertise it as a 64 000 000 000 bytes card!
They are right I'm afraid. Check Wiki for the full story, but SI units define gigabytes as 10^9 bytes and gibibytes (GiB) as 2^30. I have never seen anyone use GiB though, and I think we are worse off with this definition.
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