8GB used out of the box?

[dpham00]

How come no one is upset that they advertise GB wrong? The 32GB isn't even 32GB....

It has been standard practice for decades. I don't agree with it, but it is what it is. Nothing is going to change in that regard.

 

[dpham00]

Just to clarify as this seems to always confuse people... Samsung defines :
1GB= 1 billion bytes (decimal)

The system is binary, so what the computer sees :
1GB = 2^30 =1,073,xxx,xxx bytes

GB =Gigabyte

There is also "gibibyte" which some refer to as the binary.

To make things more confusing, ram is in power of 2. So 1GB ram =1,024 MB = 1,073,xxx, xxx bytes

Verizon data usage is measured by 1GB =1,073, xxx, xxx bytes

To make matters even more confusing, bandwidth speed is usually referred to in bits per second, 1 byte =8 bits. Verizon advertises up to 12mbps, or 12 megabits /sec. Which is 1.5 megabytes /sec

 

[Duffin]

Oh .. well yeah as we said earlier that isn't how it works in tech. It hasn't ever worked that way actually. They advertise the size of the hard drive within the device. When I buy an SSD on Amazon I don't expect to have 250 GB of usable space since I know the OS is going to take up space once I load it up.

I know that's how it works. That's why I said it *should* work differently.

 

[matt3166]

If a company knows that it takes 8GB or whatever then they should add it to the memory and give us the 32GB their selling. It's not like 8GB is going to break the bank for them.

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