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Re:Lawyer sues Microsoft over Surface tablet storage by mmanfrin on Friday November 16, 2012 @02:29PM (#4795421)
Have you bought any electronic with storage at all in the past 10 years? Not even hard drives come with the advertised storage -- they've had to repurpose what 'GB' means (base-10 instead of base-2).
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Re:Lawyer sues Microsoft over Surface tablet storage by fruchtose on Friday November 16, 2012 @02:40PM (#4795463)
That's not false advertising. The drives are measured in SI bytes, which is a decimal system.
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Re:Lawyer sues Microsoft over Surface tablet storage by mmanfrin on Friday November 16, 2012 @03:37PM (#4795706)
Did you read my comment?
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Re:Lawyer sues Microsoft over Surface tablet storage by fruchtose on Friday November 16, 2012 @10:39PM (#4797074)
Yes. Hard drives do in fact come with the advertised storage. Manufacturers rate hard drives in using SI prefixes. Operating systems measure hard drives in binary bytes. It's not false advertising if the measurement system is valid.
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