However you feel (Betrayed! Nonplussed! Oblivious!) about Apple’s decision to switch the way Snow Leopard calculates space from the more traditional base 2 method to the more flattering base 10, it was disappointing to find out that Apple hadn’t magically carved 20GB out of your Leopard install.
Most of us have accepted our falsely inflated disks and moved on, but for the rest of us, here’s how to force Snow Leopard to report bits like everyone else, which is lame in its own way. Feel free to tear apart my use of the headline “honest” in the comments; I’ll be busy weeping over my 250GB 233GB hard drive. [Macrumors, image courtesy of Lifehacker]
egon
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 1:01 PMyou do realise that what they’ve done is correct according to the IEEE definitions, right? why are people still whinging about this like it’s a big scam?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 3:51 PMBecause it could be a big scam, if the space savings quoted by Apple are because of the change. It might be the right way but it probably wasn’t the best time to make the change. Users will get confused on whether they actually saved a load of space or not.
egon
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 12:10 PMthe marketing aspect is opportunistic, but snide remarks about the way disk space is actually reported are way off the mark. they should be directed at the marketing material or not at all, since the way the disk space is reported is CORRECT.