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A good explanation to a common question. By Alan Norton at TechRepublic.com…

Learn why 250GB is not ever reported as 250GB | Microsoft Windows | TechRepublic.com:

How all of this madness started is a fascinating stroll down the halls of computer history. Anyone who knows anything at all about computers knows that computers use binary numbers to count. Each piece of information used by a computer has one of two values, 0 or 1, called bits – short for binary digits. Eight bits are combined to create a byte. By the very nature of memory, (Table A) more bytes are usually added by doubling them from 1 to 2, and then doubling them again nine more times until we reach 1,024 bytes.”

From TechRepublic.com and yes, I’m sticking to my guns…

Snow Leopard fails to convince CIOs to adopt more Macs | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com: “The most talked about new feature in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which debuted on August 28, is its native integration with Microsoft Exchange. The assumption was that this one feature could have the same kind of impact in opening the Mac market to corporate users as Exchange integration had on bringing the iPhone to business professionals. A new survey of TechRepublic’s CIO Jury completely debunks that assumption.”