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Upgraded to Snow Leopard!
« on: June 05, 2010, 07:33:49 PM »
Yeah, I gained like 10 gigs of space and now I can finally run all the stuff that Gan writes.
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Re: Upgraded to Snow Leopard!
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2010, 10:04:42 PM »
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Yeah, I gained like 10 gigs of space and now I can finally run all the stuff that Gan writes.


You did not gain that much space. Snow Leopard considers 1 KB to be 1,000 bytes (base 10), while all previous versions of the Mac OS, as well as every other OS in the world, considers 1 KB to be 1,024 bytes (base 2).

While you may have saved some space, as Snow Leopard does not have any PPC code, I doubt you saved 10 GB of actual space.

Unfortunately, Apple's decision to screw up file sizes in Snow Leopard will only lead to confusion such as yours. For example, RAM (memory) is still measured in base 2.
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Re: Upgraded to Snow Leopard!
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2010, 10:10:46 AM »
Snow Leopard FTW. I got 4GB of RAM for my MacbookPro (obviously running Snow Leopard) It is wonderful :)
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Re: Upgraded to Snow Leopard!
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2010, 10:31:23 AM »
:D Awesome.


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Re: Upgraded to Snow Leopard!
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2010, 06:13:28 PM »
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You did not gain that much space. Snow Leopard considers 1 KB to be 1,000 bytes (base 10), while all previous versions of the Mac OS, as well as every other OS in the world, considers 1 KB to be 1,024 bytes (base 2).
Apple really made a mistake that big?
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Re: Upgraded to Snow Leopard!
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2010, 02:43:38 AM »
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Apple really made a mistake that big?


Yes.

In fact, the change is not even applied consistently within Snow Leopard!

Download a file in Safari. For example http://www.silvercreator.net/downloads/WinGM4Mac.dmg.

You will notice that Safari says the file is 36.8 MB

Now go to the Finder once the file has downloaded. Finder says the file is 38.6 MB!!!

It is one of the stupidest things Apple has done in a long time.

Some will say, that since kilo is 1000 then a kilobyte should be 1000 bytes, then this change in Snow Leopard is correct. Unfortunately, Snow Leopard's implementation of this change is so incomplete - it's like when Apple removed floppy drives - except imagine that Apple still gave you blank floppy disks with every Mac!
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Re: Upgraded to Snow Leopard!
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2010, 02:05:21 PM »
That's a pretty big oversight, but I'm sure I still did gain a lot of space.
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Re: Upgraded to Snow Leopard!
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2010, 05:43:37 PM »
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That's a pretty big oversight, but I'm sure I still did gain a lot of space.


You probably did game some space if you upgraded from Leopard, which contained PPC code that wastes space on Intel Macs (and Intel code that wastes space on PPC Macs).
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