donnedwards.openaccess.co.za— My brand new HP Pavilion notebook is supposed to have an 80GB drive, but ships with one 6.8% smaller at 74.6GB. Looks like HP wants to rip off its customers.
Mar 1, 2007View in Crawl 4
ZzzzzzEveryone knows that computer and drive manufacturers consider 80 GB to be 80,000,000,000 bytes. Your computer, however, realizes that 80,000,000,000 bytes is really 74.6 GB.
bigbunionMar 1, 2007
ZzzzzzEveryone knows that computer and drive manufacturers consider 80 GB to be 80,000,000,000 bytes. Your computer, however, realizes that 80,000,000,000 bytes is really 74.6 GB.
mikefromamericaMar 1, 2007
Lame.Hard drives have been measured this way since the beginning of time. Next time read the fine print before opening your wallet.
donnedwardsMar 2, 2007Submitter
If they wanted to supply 80,000,000,000 bytes they should have labelled it as 80GiB not 80GB.