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Computer Makers Sued Over Hard Drive Size

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the yep-size-still-matters dept.

FPCat writes "Finally, some one is doing something about one of my pet peeves. It seems a group of people are suing Apple, Dell, Gateway, HP, and others for misleading consumers about hard disk sizes. About time someone spoke up and said '1000 MB != 1 GB'" It's not much of a mystery to anyone who's up on industry practices, but it's similar to the way graphic displays are sized, cereal boxes are filled, and so on. Andy Rooney could have a field day with this one.

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  1. Sorry, but 1K = 1000 period. by nytmare · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Only total geeks measure 1K as 1024. So this guy's suing because he wants the geekified definitions used? How incredibly fucking stupid can you get. I'm already sick and tired of Windows Explorer measuring my file sizes in multiples of 1024. Now this guy wants EVERYTHING measured that way. What an asshole. HD manufacturers do it correctly, it is you who is wrong.