More Reuters: the agency reports that a group of computer owners has filed a lawsuit against hardware and computermakers, claiming that their advertising is deceptive, overstating the true size of harddrives.
The suit names Apple, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba and the center of the controversy is that these companies showcase the size of harddrives in decimal notation while the computers read and write in binary system.
Didn’t get it? Well, again: the group claims that harddrives described as 20 Gb, actually have a size of 18.6 Gb. Yes. As if we didn’t know.