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Most people think that the reason the iPod’s actual memory doesn’t match the advertised amount is because of system software, but the reality is that, due to the fact that computers deal with numbers in a slightly different way to us, there’s actually considerably more bytes in a gigabyte. To be honest, it’s all very boring, but it basically means that instead of – for example – you getting 60,000,000,000 bytes of capacity, you actually get roughly 55,879,350,000. So now, when people smugly try to tell you that the other 4Gb of space on your iPod is actually made up of system software and complicated video-display routines, you can put them straight. Finally, if all this has given you a taste for numbers, then you can find out much more about gigabytes here. |
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