Info window and file sizes

I've been transitioning into Lion for about half a day now and most new features are welcome.  However I can't figure out why the info window displays the size of a file in bytes then displays it in Gigabytes, megabytes etc.  How on earth is this easier to read?  Is this perhaps a bug and not an improvement??
For Example:
Lion: 7,043,089,832 bytes (7.07 GB on disk) for 13,115 items
Snow Leopard:  7.07 GB on disk (7,043.......bytes)
I apologize if it seems very nitpicky but it takes about two seconds more to figure out the files attributes (and I use the info window quite a bit).
I suppose I could open the infowindow nib file with interface builder and swap them (the filesize templates) but a hassle...anyone else annoyed/confused with this new layout??
Thanks!
ASIDE FROM THE SMALL ANOYANCES, LION IS FANTASTIC!

typod16 wrote:
For Example:
Yes I understood the ⌘-i   part,  I did not grok the copy and paste in red part. 
Thanks the  example pics was a great help.
In all honesty it looks the same to me as always,  but I will take your word on it.
I see it as a non issue.
There are many instances of the nuances of calculating differences if you want to be pedantic:
df -h
vs
df -H
DESCRIPTION
     The df utility displays statistics about the amount of free disk space on
     the specified filesystem or on the filesystem of which file is a part.
     Values are displayed in 512-byte per block counts.  If neither a file or
     a filesystem operand is specified, statistics for all mounted filesystems
     are displayed (subject to the -t option below).
     The following options are available:
     -a      Show all mount points, including those that were mounted with the
             MNT_IGNORE flag.
     -b      Use 512-byte blocks rather than the default.  Note that this
             overrides the BLOCKSIZE specification from the environment.
     -g      Use 1073741824-byte (1-Gbyte) blocks rather than the default.
             Note that this overrides the BLOCKSIZE specification from the
             environment.
     -H      "Human-readable" output.  Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
             Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte in order to reduce the
             number of digits to three or less using base 10 for sizes.
     -h      "Human-readable" output.  Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
             Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte in order to reduce the
             number of digits to three or less using base 2 for sizes.
     -i      Include statistics on the number of free inodes.
     -k      Use 1024-byte (1-Kbyte) blocks rather than the default.  Note
             that this overrides the BLOCKSIZE specification from the environ-
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