superaymond Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 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. Dark Phoenix Clan Site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeDaStudd Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 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. [hide=Drops]Dragon Axe x11Berserker Ring x9Warrior Ring x8SeercullDragon MedDragon Boots x4 - all less then 30 kcGodsword Shard (bandos)Granite Maul x 3Solo only - doesn't include barrows[/hide][hide=Stats][/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superaymond Posted July 26, 2007 Author Share Posted July 26, 2007 is it suppose to be like that? Dark Phoenix Clan Site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon_7 Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Yes, almost all of the computers that I've used are that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartoron Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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