The Internet was up in arms earlier this week when Microsoft announced that its 128GB Surface Pro only had 83GB of actual usable space. It appears, however, the Microsoft understated their own estimate, due to a difference between their production and final shipping units. In reality, the tablet will have 89.7GB of free space, a figure that is not significantly higher but is certainly an upgrade. ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by bobiroc:You are correct. I guess it isn't a big deal. Just feels like they use a huge chunk for the OS, and it is supposed to be a mobile device.
How is this any different than the MacBook Air or other computing products? The Macbook Air only has 99GB free of the 128GB SSD it includes and that does not have a recovery partition. If you use the utility to offload the recovery partition on the Surface Pro it jumps over 97GB free.
If you buy a computer and it says it has a 500GB Hard Drive it is accepted that the 500GB us measured in 1,000,000 bytes equals 1GB which actually brings the total size down and then there is the space used by the OS and preinstalled applications.
So basically they advertise it has a 128GB total capacity just like they have been doing with computing products since like forever. It is understood (or at least should be) the more the OS can do the more room it is going to take. I mean my 32GB iPhone only has barely over 27GB free for use and that is just a phone OS.
Originally posted by neronut:Well it is running full Windows so it is basically like a laptop which is also a mobile device. The problem is SSDs are expensive but are used because they are fast and consume less power. If it was a 500+GB drive like comes in most computers using standard hard drives no one would be bitching.
Originally posted by bobiroc:You are correct. I guess it isn't a big deal. Just feels like they use a huge chunk for the OS, and it is supposed to be a mobile device.
How is this any different than the MacBook Air or other computing products? The Macbook Air only has 99GB free of the 128GB SSD it includes and that does not have a recovery partition. If you use the utility to offload the recovery partition on the Surface Pro it jumps over 97GB free.
If you buy a computer and it says it has a 500GB Hard Drive it is accepted that the 500GB us measured in 1,000,000 bytes equals 1GB which actually brings the total size down and then there is the space used by the OS and preinstalled applications.
So basically they advertise it has a 128GB total capacity just like they have been doing with computing products since like forever. It is understood (or at least should be) the more the OS can do the more room it is going to take. I mean my 32GB iPhone only has barely over 27GB free for use and that is just a phone OS.
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