Why is my hard disk smaller than on the box?

[macmorg]

Did they give me an 80 gig hard drive when the box is marked 100 gig?

OK, you have an 80GB HDD.

80,000,000,000 bytes / 1024 = 78125000 Kibibytes

/ 1024 = 76,293.9453125 Mebibytes

/ 1024 = 74.50580596924 Gibibytes

So, your Mac reports 74.41GiB, that means you lose ~0.1GiB to formatting.

Make sense?

Last night I bought a 100-gig MacBook Pro. When I got it home, I checked the properties of my hard drive and saw that it said I had about 74 gig capacity. I think they gave me an 80 gig hard drive. Am I right? Should I return it? (The box says 100 gigs.)

(I am sure, by the way, that the 74 gigs was capacity and not AVAILABLE capacity -- the available capacity with nothing but the software that comes with it was about 55 gigs.)

 

[ftaok]

Last night I bought a 100-gig MacBook Pro. When I got it home, I checked the properties of my hard drive and saw that it said I had about 74 gig capacity. I think they gave me an 80 gig hard drive. Am I right? Should I return it? (The box says 100 gigs.)

(I am sure, by the way, that the 74 gigs was capacity and not AVAILABLE capacity -- the available capacity with nothing but the software that comes with it was about 55 gigs.)

74 GB sounds about right for an 80 GB drive. You should definately call Apple about this. Is everything else on your MacBook correct, like the RAM, etc?

ft

 

[mattthemutt]

It makes me mad!!

I agree. I don't see why this isn't labled as fraud or something.

 

[someguy]

I agree. I don't see why this isn't labled as fraud or something.

Are you being serious?

I think the reason they avoid KiB, MiB, etc. is because computers are confusing enough as it is. Most people don't even know the difference between a hard drive and memory.

 

[macmorg]

74 GB sounds about right for an 80 GB drive. You should definately call Apple about this. Is everything else on your MacBook correct, like the RAM, etc?

ft

Turns out the answer to that question is "no." The RAM is wrong, the processor is wrong... Somebody put a 2Ghz/80g/500MB MacBook Pro in a box marked 2.16Ghz/100g/1gRAM.

The Apple Store says I should bring it in and they'll swap it out for me. Now all I have to worry about is, will they get all my personal info off the returned machine. About all that's on there is my registration info (address, etc) and I did visit one banking site.... but they'll wipe the drive, I'm sure.

...right...?

 

[ftaok]

Turns out the answer to that question is "no." The RAM is wrong, the processor is wrong... Somebody put a 2Ghz/80g/500MB MacBook Pro in a box marked 2.16Ghz/100g/1gRAM.

The Apple Store says I should bring it in and they'll swap it out for me. Now all I have to worry about is, will they get all my personal info off the returned machine. About all that's on there is my registration info (address, etc) and I did visit one banking site.... but they'll wipe the drive, I'm sure.

...right...?

That sucks.

As for the data transfer, ask them to transfer the data from the "bogus" MacBookPro to the new "correct" MacBookPro. It shouldn't take too long. Then tell them that you would prefer that they wipe the drive of the "bogus" Mac, just in case.

They shouldn't have any problems doing that, after all, you've been inconvenienced.

ft