lol. Apparently my brain is broken.
Comment on Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM
rushaction@programming.dev 2 months agoI dunno if you noticed or if that was the joke. But you said “8 megs” three times in your comment when I think you meant to say “8 gigs”. 1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes. Just wanted to let you know in case it wasn’t a joke about how 8 wasn’t enough. That’s all, thank you!
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ricdeh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Actually, 1 gigabyte (10^9^ B) is 1000 megabytes (10^6^ B), while one gibibyte (2^30^ B) corresponds to 1024 mebibytes (2^20^ B). I know that in some circles, 1 GB is treated as 1 GiB, so I don’t blame you. This system of quantities is standardised internationally in order to conform with the SI (mega must mean a million times and not 2^20^ times), but many don’t conform to it, such as Microsoft as far as I know.
rushaction@programming.dev 2 months ago
Thank you for the correction and details.