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  • Re: 20" imac intel's hard disk capacity: 233 GB. not 250 GB claimed by Apple's specification

    From Walter Bushell@proto@panix.com to comp.sys.mac.system on Saturday, April 15, 2006 12:33:15
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    In article <rIHVf.345$Fl.270@fed1read09>, Jd Lyall <jdlyall@bounce.net>
    wrote:

    Al wrote:
    Now that some European standards group has declared that kilo means
    1000, the great unwashed think they can apply the prefix kilo to byte
    and think it means 1000 bytes. In reality, a kilobyte was, and always
    will be 1028 bytes.

    Al

    1024

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