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fruchtose
on Nov 16, 2012
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Lawyer sues Microsoft over Surface tablet storage
That's not false advertising. The drives are measured in SI bytes, which is a decimal system.
mmanfrin
on Nov 16, 2012
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Did you read my comment?
fruchtose
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Yes. Hard drives do in fact come with the advertised storage. Manufacturers rate hard drives in using SI prefixes. Operating systems measure hard drives in binary bytes. It's not false advertising if the measurement system is valid.
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