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Old 03-07-07, 05:55 PM   #6 (permalink)
jaimelobo
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Originally Posted by virkelie View Post
...Much better than 981 mb - but still not the full 4000 mb (or 4GB). From other posts, I understand this to be more or less normal - you never get the rated capacity.
As Daniel2006 points out, it's all in the math and difference between bits, bytes, kilobytes, etc. It's not just memory cards, it is the same with hard drives. A kilobyte is not 1,000 bytes (as you might think), it's 1024 bytes and a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes, etc. etc.
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