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Should I get a ps3 slim or an iPod touch 32 gigs?

Why does Apple say their iPod touch is 32 gigs when it's actually 27?

  • So it's marketed as 32, and on the back it says 32, but in the info on my iPod it says the capacity is only 27 gigs. Also on my old iPod, which was 8 gigs, the info said the capacity is 7. And, on my first iPod nano, it was 4 gigs, but really only had 3.6. I guess I understand the last one since it's just rounded to the next whole gig, but why is my iPod touch marketed as 32 when it's only 27?

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    The iOS 4.3.3, which is the software that your iPod runs, takes up around 4 - 5 GB of data of the memory. This is the pre-installed apps like mail, Calender, iTunes, etc. It also takes a certain amount of memory to use Multitasking. So it truely has 32 GB of memory, but some of it as already in use.

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It is 32 gig. It's no different than when you buy a computer. They tell you the hard disk size by it's unformatted capacity. Then it gets formatted which takes some bytes. Then the operating system gets loaded. Lots of bytes there. Apps that come with it take some. They're not lying to you. Your expectations are incorrect.

I think the apple software takes up some gigs.

Companies usually defines a gigabyte as 1000 MB.. but in reality.. 1 gigabyte is 1024MB

Welcome to the world of computing. Formatting and operating systems reduce the effective capacity below what the physical number is. That sounds like a pretty big hit, but I'm sure the software is pretty sophisticated. EDIT: This is not just the difference between counting in gigs and billions. If the 27 were true binary gigs then you would have 27*1024^3 = 28,991,029,248 which is still much less than 32,000,000,000

Neither of em are completely correct. Some space is obviously taken up by the default software and whatnot, but there is also a difference between how software people calculate whats one gigabyte and what hardware people calculate to be one gigabyte. In the inner workings of a computer has to do with binary code, which means everything moves up by a power of 2, which means a gigabyte isn't actually 1000 megabytes (since 1000 isn't a power of 2). Its actually 1024 megabytes (which is a power of 2) = 1 GB. That's why you see the difference.

32 gigs before the factory puts in the default stuff.

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