Re: question on speed and memory display on 10.6.
Re: question on speed and memory display on 10.6.
- Subject: Re: question on speed and memory display on 10.6.
- From: Ed Wynne <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:56:45 -0400
On Sep 12, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Seth Willits wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Mitchell Livingston wrote:
>
>> In 10.6 the display of disk space was changed from base-2 to base-10, as discussed in http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419. For download rates (KB/sec), is that also in base-10 on 10.6? Also, in what base is the display of the amount of system memory?
>
> Nothing changed except for the hard drive disk space display.
Unambiguous standardized prefixes were defined to solve this problem a decade ago, except nobody ever seems to use them. The most common reason I keep hearing is that people are used to the old misused prefixes and think the new prefixes might be confusing. Which is complete crap for reasoning, IMHO, its marketing logic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte
-Ed
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