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Re: ipod touch help

Because it will show you how to set up home sharing.....

Re: ipod touch help

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Originally Posted by Jameseh (Post 35299344)

The 6GB is what the formatted memory is when you buy it, like a 32GB one is about 28GB. You can't get that space back.

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35299538)

Common misconception, and totally wrong.

Go on - I'll bite 'cus I just know your itching to spout the answer...

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35301771)

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=gigabyte+fo...+misconception

A 32GB drive is not about 28GB, it's 32GB. You don't lose any space from formatting. My 32GB card is 32.2961 GB, after formatting it's 32.2959 GB. Formatting has nothing to do with the capacity "loss".

Suppose you think LMGTFY is really clever don't you? I didn't need to know the answer, BTW 'cus I knew what the answer was. And your answer is not correct.

As not to re-invent the wheel, I've ripped this from this site / answer.

Manufacturers sell the drive based on 1GB=1000MB, 1MB=1000kb 1KB=1000bytes, etc.

Hard drives are formatted like this: 1GB=1024MB, 1MB=1024kb, 1KB=1024bytes, etc.

So you're not really losing anything, it's just deceptive marketing. So *I think* 1GB actually equals 1073.741824MB, but I probably did the math wrong (1024(b)x1024(k)x1024(m)). So for every GB you lose ~74MB. Works out for me, I've got 2 120GB drives, using 74MB/GB "loss" I should have 8880MB less when formatted, Windows shows it as (roughly) 111GB.

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Hard drives are not formatted like anything. So sorry, you're wrong again, and you clearly don't know the answer.

Windows displays GiB as GB, that's it. It's not deceptive marketing at all, just because you've been roped into an incorrect way of measuring things by Microsoft. And it still has NOTHING to do with formatting.

Yes, you definately did the math wrong. 1GB actually equals 1000MB. 1GiB equals 1024MiB. End of.

P.S. Read the link I actually posted, which explains what formatting is, since you don't seem to understand.

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35301802)

Yes, you definately did the math wrong.

Wrong. No I didn't - as I said I ripped it from that page - it was the poster there that did the maths - not me.

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35301802)

P.S. Read the link I actually posted, which explains what formatting is, since you don't seem to understand.

You really are very antagonistic. All your posts have an air of attention seeking.

And with that - I'm out of this thread as I don't want a pointless agrument.

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I'm not the one who butted in and claimed someone else was wrong with completely ridiculous and unfounded statements. I stand by what I said while you blame someone else for your errors.

Please. Don't butt in unless you have a clue what you're talking about. And don't blame me for the "pointless agrument" you started.

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Play nicely please, or don't post at all