Gadget lust

[trixtah]

One terabyte. USB2. $AU1200.

OMFG.

Actually, I've noticed a trend where terabytes etc are expressed as 1000GB, when of course, they should be 1024GB. What do we call them then? Metric terabytes?

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[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Marketing has used metric denominations solidly ever since the kilo/mega/giga/tera/etc prefixes were officially redefined in 1999 to be metric by the international Electrotechnical Commission. The redefinition became a full IEEE standard last March. Marketeers also used metric before '99, because they're weasels.

About the only items which still use the old meanings for the words are RAM chips.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Jeeze, what is happening in the world when even the IEEE-geeks succumb to the evils of marketing-speak? *sigh*

I had no bloody idea.