This question will seem simple & yet stupid for most. What is bigger MB's or GB's.?

Question

I just purchased a program that requires 850MB and when I looked at available space it showed 10.72MB, now it seems I would not have enough to load the program. Is that a correct assumption.

I hope I'm wrong.

Thanks Jode'

I just looked at my computer and it showed 27.0 GB so then I should have enough room for a program requiring 850 MB's RIGHT?

Jode'

Answer 1

Gigabytes is bigger!
I don't know where you looked at "availabe space" but it seems you should have a lot more than that. If you computer is that 'loaded' I'm sure it needs cleaned up and delete a lot of unneeded stuff. You can burn stuff to a CD or DVD and delete it from your puter to gain space.
DO THIS: Open My Computer and look at free space there to see what you really have. (or did you mean you have 10.72 GIGABYTES?) If so, you have plenty of space.

Answer 2

1 GB (Gigabyte) is equal to 1000 MBs. So GB's are much larger.

If you only have 10.72 MB left on your computer you cannot load the 850MB program. However if you have 10.72 GB of storage left you could load the program on to your computer several times.

Answer 3

I hope you are wrong when you claimed you have 10.72 MB of free space. If you meant GB, you are okay, If you didn't, you need another hd and you should explain why you asked about GB since it wasn't mentioned in the details.

Answer 4

Um 10.72MB is not alot of space at all. Now its titled whats bigger mb's or gb's. Now if that is a typo and you mean 10gb's then yes you have more then enough space, 1000mb's=1 gb. If it isnt a typo I would highly recomend picking up another hard drive

Answer 5

MB means mega bytes. GB stands for giga bytes.

just as 1,000 KB = 1 MB, likewise 1,000 MB = 1 GB

You can delete unwanted files, and uninstall unused programs to clear up more space.

I hope that helped.

Answer 6

one gigabyte (GB) equals a thousand megabytes (MB). In your question, did you mean to say that your available space is 10.72 GB?? If so, you have plenty of room to store that program.

Answer 7

K = Kilo = thousand = 1,000
(more exactly, it means 2^10 = 1024).

M=Mega= million = 1,000,000
(more exactly, it means 2^20=1024*1024)

G=Giga= billion = 1,000,000,000
(more exactly, it means 2^30 = 1024*1024*1024)

So 1GB is 1000 times bigger then 1MB.
(more exactly 1024x bigger)

Answer 8

GB's are larger. And if you only have 10.72 Mb available you Have a serious problem on your hands.

You Welcome.
~Nathan