1GB=1000MB in snow leopard


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Apparently snow leopard reports the capacity in base-10 instead of the 1024 thing.

Now I dont know what impact this has on the whole "snow leopard reduces the HD footprint of the OS", but one of the implications of using base 10 is that not only will your hard drive have a bigger capacity, all files contained will also account for more GB than before.

I wonder if 1MB is still 1024kb?

http://smarterware.org/3122/snow-leopard-r...ctly-in-base-10

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Very little, I use df to measure my disk usage (which by default measures in 512 byte blocks rather than any arbitrary format) I noticed a few gigs shaved off my previous Leopard install on the Mac Pro and MBP so yes it's smaller by default.

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implications of using base 10 is that not only will your hard drive have a bigger capacity, all files contained will also account for more GB than before.

It won't have a bigger capacity. It'll just look like it does.

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Does this mean every file on Snow Leopard is now considerably larger, due to the change?

The size is the same, it's just a different unit.

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Does this mean every file on Snow Leopard is now considerably larger, due to the change?

doesn't really make that much of a difference but yes they are a bit larger

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The size is the same, it's just a different unit.

We'll yes, I knew you can't just change the physical size of the hard drive storage :laugh: Now each file will appear differently.

This change is very confusing, all just to prevent consumers from asking the age old question "wheres the rest of my space?". Download sizes will appear larger, download speeds will appear faster, when in reality, download at the same speed.

Only if everything changed format overnight, than I could see this all making sense. It is a step in the right direction, but will it stick?

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1MB = 1000 KB

1MiB = 1024 KB

Noone actually usesthe MiB,GiB,TiB crap. It's a stupid solution to a really non existing problem.

everyone who says 1MB pretty much means 1024, and those who don't, they're the ones who don't even know there's a difference between 1000 and 1024, they just know there's MegaBytes and such.

As long as you're talking bits/bytes it should be obvious to anyone it matters for that you're talkign ain base2 and this 1024.

the whole MiB crap needs to die, and everyoen should learn to count to 1024.

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Okay, the whole MiB **** is so stupid. Seeing as computers work in binary (base 2) it makes a hell of a lot more sense for 1MB to = 1024 KB (and such).

Exactly. The entire Base 2 is what everyone with computer smarts has grown to know. Changing the GUI to show Base 10 isn't exactly helping people understand the entire situation of 1M = 1024KB.

Does this mean Apple realizes there are more people who don't understand the whole concept of Base 2, that they needed to change so that those people would better understand?

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It's pretty much established that 1 MB = 1024 KB even though it isn't technically equal to that amount.

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For god shake... I don't care about if 1MB is 1000KB or 1024KB, but make it universal in anything!

I don't want to think about different files sizes between my Mac and PCs...

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Next Apple ad - "Windows steals your storage space". :p
Next Microsoft ad: OSX make files .25% bigger! :sleep:
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Change the hard drives, not the software to more accurately reflect the storage size

Or their boxes ;)

I'm all over the change, but everybody needs to do it as well. Everywhere in the documentation where we see MB, GB, KB, etc. it needs to be changed... pretty huge IMO.

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