How do manufactures add gigabytes to systems? cause they are a rip off?

Question

I recently bought a 60 GB Playstation 3 and it only got 55, and before that I bought an Ipod video 60 GB and it only had 55. Do they do it to save money or they don't have control over it? think about it an Ipod nano 2 gigabyte can cost up to $100, so are companies hoping that you will ignore it and move on?? And is not that I can return my ps3 for another one cause they're sold out.

Answer 1

One of the "deceptive" things that hard drive manufacturers do is measure their "gigabytes" differently than your computer measures them. For instance, when you buy a 60G drive it has 60,000,000,000 bytes on it. When your computer measures it, the definition of a gigabyte is actually 1024*1024*1024 bytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes. This means a 60G drive will show up as 55.87G on your computer. Additionally there may also be some initial storage used up by the PS3 or the iPod but its not 5G worth, probably much less than 1G.

Answer 2

the same reason a 40" TV screen isn't really exactly 40". No-one is trying to rip you off, there are things like the operating system and hardware drivers loaded onto all these items. Computers are the same way.

Answer 3

That 60 gigs is the base hard drive size, then they install any kind of operating system etc, its the same thing with computers. They just elect not to tell you about it :). Most people don't even notice.

Answer 4

actually a 60gb hard drive is 68gb (0xFFFFFFFFF), BUT there is software and drivers for the operating system and software for the functions of the device itself, which takes up space. So actually you have more than 60gb, its just that some of the space is already being used.