New ipod has space taken up...

hello, i am new to this discussion site. i have an immediate question that i hope someone knows the answer to.
i have an ipod that is not new but i bought it as a demo from an apple store about two weeks ago. it is an ipod 60 GB. i don't know what generation it is, but it is not the one that plays videos. it has color and can show photos plus it is thicker than a typical 20 GB. 2005 is labeled on the back of it.
my question is why is that my new ipod that i bought two weeks ago, has 53.56 GB that are available? what happened to the other something 4.25 that were not accounted for? let my tell you all that i have only 2.19 GB used up. i have no photos on it. nothing but music on it. what heck happened to the rest of the 4.25 GB's? somebody please help me out!

It's not only Apple, any computer disk maker is going
to calculate disk space the same way, there will
always be about a 10% discrepancy between quoted disk
size & usable disk size. Another example: a 20GB
ipod has approximately 18.6GB usable space. I have
160GB LaCie external HD, the usable space was
something like 149GB, if I remember correctly.
so, that 60 GB's that are labled on the boxes of the ipods are just a scheme that the manufactures claim and end up getting away with? i am cheated out by the manufactures. i pay for the 60 but only get 53.7...

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