ok, I just got my ibm t61 think pad.. I just have a question about the hardware.. I ordered a 1024mb ram and 120gb of hardrive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, when I checked it up, it only has 998mb of ram and 105 gb of room in c drive.. which in this case is the ONLY drive.. So, should I call them to find out what the problem is, or is this normal.

ok, I just got my ibm t61 think pad.. I just have a question about the hardware.. I ordered a 1024mb ram and 120gb of hardrive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, when I checked it up, it only has 998mb of ram and 105 gb of room in c drive.. which in this case is the ONLY drive.. So, should I call them to find out what the problem is, or is this normal.

 

 

 

It has onboard graphics meaning some of the ram is used buy the graphics, hence the low ram, as for the harddrive space I would guess there's a hidden partition for a reinstall.

is it suppose to be like that?

Yes, almost all of the computers that I've used are that way.

is it suppose to be like that?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes. The hard drive reading as 105gb is perfectly normal. Infact, it's supposed to be like that. Due to the difference in the way your operating system calculates a gigabyte and the way the hard drive manufacturer calculates a gigabyte, the readout for the amount of space on your hard drive will always be a little less than it really is. However, you still have 120 gb of space. Here's a good explanation from a review on Newegg for a 320gb hard drive:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is just a note for those of you writing about the "loss" of GB's. I am surprised that somewhere along the way it seems to have been forgotten by so many that a computer operates in binary (base 2) and most operating systems thus report 1xGigabyte as 2 to the 30th power, or 1,073,741,824 bytes, NOT 1,000,000,000 (10 to the 9th power, i.e., base 10 system that us humans use). Therefore, for a "320GB" drive, you should generally expect to see a "reported" capacity of a little over 93% of the listed capacity (which is also not exact, but that's another story). Sorry if I sound too pedantic, but as you may guess, I stared on mainframes.