My Ipad 16 GB says under settings the capacity is only 14 GB...whats this all about?
My wife bought my an Ipad from Best Buy...it doesn't see to have any of the new digs such as IOS5 or Icloud. Then under setttings it says the capacity is only 14 GB.....and it is a 16 GB unit? Any ideas what this is all about?
That's because 1.000.000.000, are 1 million bytes, which isn't kilo (thousand)' mega (million), but giga (billion).
16 million bytes are thus sold as 16 GB. Every hardware producer does is.
However 1 Kilobyte actually not 1000 bytes, but 1024 bytes, Megabyte is actually 1024 kilobytes and 1 Gigabyte is 1024 Megabytes.
1024 Bytes /1.024 = 1 KB
1000 Bytes/1.024 = 0.976 KB
1000.000 Bytes/1.024/1.024 = 0.953 MB
1.000.000.000 Bytes/1.024/1.024/1.024 = 0,931 GB
16GB thus only is 14,9 GB on which the OS is installed first which leaves me with 13,8 GB useable.
It's just the way bytes are counted vs sold. Not a real problem though. An app you download for 500 MB is actually 524.000.000. You really did get 16.000.000.000 bytes and are allowed to use them all.
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