Nothing false about it. It's the inevitable result of using an established term to mean something different.
The SI prefix 'M' means 10^6, not 2^20. Memory is almost always listed using the binary terminology, which would be written MiB according to the most popular disambiguation scheme. HD manufacturers all use the SI meaning, because it allows them to advertise a larger number of MB. A third definition of 'MB' is that used by floppy drives, 10^3 x 2^10, or 2000 sectors of 512 bytes. A '1.44 MB' floppy has 2880 sectors.
On 3/14/07, Luke-Jr [email protected] wrote:
That's probably just the classic false advertising.
500,000,000 bytes (sold as "500 MB") is approximately 477 MB 512,000,000 bytes (sold as "512 MB", even more misleading) is approx 488 MB