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RaginAsian
12/05/04, 05:51 PM
I just bought myself a 20G iPod and I noticed that when I look at the "available capacity" reading it only says 18.5G...and that's without importing any songs. Is there something wrong with my iPod, shouldn't it say 20G available? I don't know much about the product, are there pre-loaded things on the iPod that reduces the overall capacity? If you know the answer, please tell me so I can return it if I have to. Thanks.
nightjarWI
12/05/04, 05:52 PM
It's fine. It probably needs memory to have the menus and such.
AmericanZen
12/05/04, 06:41 PM
Dont return it they are all like that. The OS for the ipod takes up space on the drive along with the other applications it has. I have a 15 gig. and it only has 13.8 gig of space for music. They just round up cause saying its an 18.5 gig ipod sounds weird.
gmc14
12/05/04, 07:14 PM
Y'all are so wrong...
gmc14
12/05/04, 07:18 PM
18.6 gigabytes = 20,000,000,000 bytes
They SAY gigabyte and use the conversion of
1 giga = 1000 mega = 1000,000 kilo = 1000,000,000 bytes
which is because most people don't know shit about computer memory
a kilobyte is actualyl equal to 1024 bytes (and a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes, and so one)

Thats why it seems off.
gmc14
12/05/04, 07:21 PM
It's fine. It probably needs memory to have the menus and such.
oh, and that's just funny... you think it would take 1.5 gigs for menus on an IPOD???
lmfao
MaybeOneDay
12/05/04, 07:39 PM
Your iPod has a block installed so you can't put shitty music on it. This includes all the bands you like.
gmc14
12/05/04, 07:42 PM
Your iPod has a block installed so you can't put shitty music on it. This includes all the bands you like.
If that was directed at me...I don't have an ipod :P
MaybeOneDay
12/05/04, 07:51 PM
No sir. That was directed at the man/woman/trisexual who started this thread.
gmc14
12/05/04, 08:21 PM
No sir. That was directed at the man/woman/trisexual who started this thread.
I take you don't like the RaginHomo?..(I mean Asian)