[10.10 64bit]-Why 8GB RAM Shows 7.8GB ?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den 2010-12-23 19:26:20 skrev win <win22 at pochta.ru>:

> On 23.12.2010 21:18, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> Den 2010-12-23 06:48:47 skrev win<win22 at pochta.ru>:
>>
>>> O 8GB ofmemory should be 8,589,934,592 bytes (which is significantly
>>> more than200MB>  8 billion).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> see the screen of my memory card properties
>>>
>>>
>> Memory cards, hard drives etc are in GB (decimal – 1 GB=10⁹ B).
>> Internal memory, on the other hand, are in GiB (binary – 1 GiB=2³⁰  
>> B),but
>> often, unfortunately, referred to as GB anyway for some reason.
>>
>> So your example is not relevant in this case, sorry.
>>
> Аnd where 300MB lost?

In YOUR case, it is probably the binary vs decimal thing, since memory  
cards are measured in real GB (where 1 GB = 10⁹ B).
In the OP's case, I think the memory is just used for something else, as  
suggested by others, but I'm really not the right person to answer that  
question, I guess. He said that 8 GB showed up as 7.8 GB, right? Well, 7.8  
GiB = 8375186227 B so it's still a lot more than 8.0 GB anyway.

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Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg