Re:Ask HN: Is this new ThinkPad E14 worth it to bother with ...
by tmpburning on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:44PM
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It doesn't make it right, but usable storage is always lower then what is claimed... either because of OS space usage, 1024 VS 1000 or filesystem...
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Re:Ask HN: Is this new ThinkPad E14 worth it to bother with ...
by amts on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:50PM
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Yes, it's always lower than claimed, but the whole SSD capacity shown by Windows is 930GB. Or is it too much of a great deal for 550 euros?
Re:Ask HN: Is this new ThinkPad E14 worth it to bother with ...
by pwg on Saturday December 31, 2022 @07:18PM
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> but the whole SSD capacity shown by Windows is 930GB.
Because the OS shows you drive capacity in power of two units, while the drive manufacturers advertise drive capacity in power of ten units. And the small difference in size between the two units adds up as the size of the drive grows.
A power of ten 1T size drive is about 930GB of space when measured using power of two units. Hard drive manufacturers have been using power of ten units for advertising capacity for about 25 years now.
Re:Ask HN: Is this new ThinkPad E14 worth it to bother with ...
by password4321 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @12:17AM
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There's a recovery partition.
https://superuser.com/questions/915238/what-is-this-recovery...
Re:Ask HN: Is this new ThinkPad E14 worth it to bother with ...
by amts on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:56PM
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How can 16GB of RAM have 15.2GB usable RAM? (there probably is 8 GB soldered RAM)
Re:Ask HN: Is this new ThinkPad E14 worth it to bother with ...
by pwg on Saturday December 31, 2022 @07:27PM
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Because as @tredre3 indicates, the GPU that is integrated onboard the CPU chip of the laptop is given 800MB to use as its frame-buffer space. Leaving 15.2GB for the OS to utilize.
All GPU's need memory to store the frame-buffer. For video cards, the memory is on the card, so no system RAM needs to be reserved. For integrated GPU's, part of system memory is reserved for the GPU (as it would otherwise have no frame-buffer).