Snow Leopard calculates disk space in base 10. One comment brings up a good point: downloaded files will appear larger on the hard drive than the size stated on a website. But hard drives have so much capacity these days that anyone downloading even, say, a 4GB file has more than enough space and won’t worry about a few hundred extra MB here and there. But they’d probably worry about 70GB missing and this means a 1TB drive will show up as 1TB instead of 930GB. It’s an end to that confusion, but I really hate that the article I linked to calls it a fix to a “disk capacity bug”.
August 31, 2009