moridinbg Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Look at the info about your disk in Disk Utility or Get Info in Finder. Compare two identical files on 10.5 and 10.6 My iPhoto Library is 13.34GB on my desktop with 10.5, but it's 14.33GB on my 10.6 Macbook. The size in bytes is the same. That's ridiculous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astroraptor Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 It is but what can you do right? I guess it's the next cool thing to do now. It's easier for non-computer-nerds to understand how much data they have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Mills Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 It is but what can you do right? I guess it's the next cool thing to do now. It's easier for non-computer-nerds to understand how much data they have. This is done so people don't buy a 250 GB Hard Disk and wonder why it formats down to 237GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmf Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix#Binary_prefixes apple is just following standards ... though i prefer base 2 too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvon Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Contrary to popular belief, it's a fix. Mega = 1000^2 Mebi = 1024^2 (which is what 10.5 and earlier used, along with most other software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte Disk makers have been using the "mega" definition since day 1 and it's created nothing but confusion with software makers using "mebi" as "mega". It's about time software makers started fixing the problem. I realize it's a shift and may be confusing, but IMO it's an important and necessary fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asc3nti0n Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Contrary to popular belief, it's a fix. Mega = 1000^2 Mebi = 1024^2 (which is what 10.5 and earlier used, along with most other software) I haven't installed Snow yet I agree wholehearted that Apple should lead the world in aligning the correct prefixing of memory storage by using decimal bytes for HDDs. BUT Memory as in RAM and USB sticks, Flash Storage etc are built on Binary values as a rule. I should imagine the new Get Info will tell you something interesting on that old 1GiB USB pen you have. And how about RAM, What prefix is Snow telling you about how much RAM you have in System Profiler, I hope they've used the binary-byte system. cmf pointed to the wikipedia link on Standard Internationale Units entry, Binary based storage constructs should be still described as kiB MiB GiB of RAM, but kB MB and GB of spinning HDDs of mass storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vors Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Look at the info about your disk in Disk Utility or Get Info in Finder. Compare two identical files on 10.5 and 10.6 My iPhoto Library is 13.34GB on my desktop with 10.5, but it's 14.33GB on my 10.6 Macbook. The size in bytes is the same. That's ridiculous! 1MB *is* 1000KB. Looks like the Apple devs finally realised that... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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