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Yes but OS X (and possibly iTunes on all platforms ) started reporting
binary with snow leopard.
> Just for the record, 16 GB (decimal) is 14.9 GiB ("binary" gigabytes).
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> Does anyone know if flash memory is measured in decimal GB as hard-drives
> are?
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> Otto
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> On 13 September 2010 12:40, Alice <alicex@adventuresunderground.co.uk
>wrote:
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>> Hi all
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>> I have just received my new iPhone 4 and have notice that it displays a
>> capacity of only 14.01GB instead of 16GB.
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>> I'm aware that hard drives 'round up' their capacity but I would have
>> expected 15.34GB or something. 2GB less seems extreme on a 16GB HD.
>>
>> I've just checked my old 3G and, indeed, that displays 14.6 GB. That is
>> still over half a GB better.
>>
>> Why such a large discrepancy?
>>
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