** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** Everything sold in the US is generally a nominal size. I purchased some kitchen cabinets to replace older ones in 2019, exactly the same inch dimensions on the paperwork but they were smaller as evidenced by the gap on the linoleum on the floor. We measured them with a centimetre tape measure and they were an exact centimetre length about 1 cm smaller than advertised in inches !
I also needed a cabinet that would fit in an alcove, when I found one in inches I asked what are the real dimensions. I told they did not know, despite them advertising it with dimensions. It's all made in China so I doubt any is the advertised size in inches. Mike Payne On 23/06/2025 09:36, vliets...@btinternet.com<mailto:vliets...@btinternet.com> vliets...@btinternet.com<mailto:vliets...@btinternet.com> wrote: Some IT products used imperial specifications to make the attractive to the US market. For example, the so-called 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy disks were actually 133 and 90 mm disks. Sent via BT Email App From: Milos Paripovic via USMA Sent: Jun 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM To: metricmik...@gmail.com<mailto:metricmik...@gmail.com> Subject: [USMA 2144] Re: Screen size computer monitors. ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** As an IT person originally from Europe - screen sizes were always in inches in every country I lived in. It's more an abstract number used to compare relative sizes of screens (I know old engineers who built cities but have no idea how big an "inch" is). But the entire industry standard is double-flawed for screens today. It made some sense when all screens were 4:3 aspect ratio, but today we use 16:9, 16:10, 21:9, 3:2, for computer screens, plus all the random aspect ratios for phones. Just specifying diagonal is not useful at all, and we should use W/H in mm for this to make sense. As for Apple tablets and laptops, those are not that widely used outside of USA, especially not in business settings, and they never followed any standards so most of us never cared what they did. On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM Metricmike via USMA <usma@lists.colostate.edu<mailto:usma@lists.colostate.edu>> wrote: ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** Hello All, I notice frustratingly that Apple the electronics company, has screen sizes in inches only (probably rounded to the nearest inch) worldwide on their websites and in the stores, despite the fact that few people outside North America and the UK use inches. I was in Australia earlier this year getting a iPad for my brother and all the screen sizes were in inches only, all over the store. I asked why? It's an Apple policy apparently. Might as well have been in cubits for all it meant to everyone under 60 in Australia. The person in the store had no idea what the size was in millimetres nor how to convert it. Submit your thoughts on this to Apple.com/feedback. Mike Payne _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@lists.colostate.edu<mailto:USMA@lists.colostate.edu> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma ________________________________ _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list USMA@lists.colostate.edu<mailto:USMA@lists.colostate.edu> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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