Re: Mac Pro memory sizes
Re: Mac Pro memory sizes
- Subject: Re: Mac Pro memory sizes
- From: Benjamin Dobson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:26:25 +0000
On 11 Jan 2009, at 22:04:09, Kenneth Bruno II wrote:
In actuality a gibibyte (GiB) is 2^20 bytes but it's not used in all
the places it should be used.
It's rarely used at all, for several reasons. One is that it makes
little sense to your average consumer, but the more amusing reason
that standard isn't used is because "kibibyte" sounds like a
children's breakfast cereal.
In general, it depends on the level of technical discussion going on.
In this area it should always mean 2^30, in my opinion. In context of
discussing hard drive sizes with your neighbour, it rarely matters.
Remember: context. For example, a discussion on Wikipedia is leaning
to wards constant use of giga- anyway to prevent confusion. In
general, the discussions which occur on these lists would not generate
such confusion when gibi- is used, but use of giga- to mean 10^9 would
be far less useful than the "real" value of 2^30.
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