Hi Tom, Believe it or not, nothng has been lost.
With decimal numbers (i.e., in most fields of endeavour outside of transistor electronics), a "gig" (slang for "giga") is a thousand thousand thousand. Thus, a gig is the same as an Australia billion. Likewise, hard-drive manufacturers describe their capacities in multiples of a billion. I guess they also round up to the nearest multiple of ten gigabytes. Good for marketing, I suppose. *However*, computers work in binary. A "binary gig" (more formally known as a gibibyte) is 1024 times 1024 times 1024, or 1.07 decimal gigs. So, the computer reports 80 gigabytes (units of GB) as 74.5 gibibytes (units of GiB -- but Apple shows it as "GB"). Nothing's been "lost" -- it's just expressed in a different accounting sytem. On 08/05/06, Brett Carboni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If they get any bigger they'll be empty when you put them in
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