Makes sense to me. As one commenter mentioned, this just reconciles the disk space the OS reports with what the drive manufacturers advertise. No longer will you buy a 500GB drive and have it show up as 465GB. Another commenter pointed out that this was simply adoption of IEEE 1541.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541-2002 CB Scott Howell wrote: > Here's an article that will screw with your mind a bit. :) > > Begin forwarded message: > >> *Date: *August 28, 2009 3:28:47 AM EDT >> *Subject: **Snow Leopard changes how file and drive sizes are calculated* >> *Source: *MacFixIt >> >> When you ask most non-geeks how many "bytes" are in a "kilobyte", >> after thinking about the root of the prefix "kilo" they might tell >> you "one thousand", and be both right and wrong at the same time. >> >> Read more… <http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090828002847714> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
