Posted by Mike Archer on 12/29/05 04:14

In article <1135788730.510798.299910@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
cornev@gmail.com says...
> i got a jukebox for christmas and have started loading on songs. i've
> about 450 songs on it with only a gig left, the box said i can store
> 1500 songs!!
>
>
When you buy a car, the manufacturers claims to it's fuel consumtion
will often be different to reality. This applies to anything you buy.
Anything to do with computers falls into this catagory, for example a
100gb hard-drive will turn out to be 95gb or less. There's no clear cut
definition of any computer storage, particualarly when you enter into
compressed storage. Companies use this to their advatage, don't feel
ripped off though, whichever device you chose to buy, the claims would
have been bullshit too. In layman's terms, honesty = loss of sales...

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