Great Laptop for the price but beware of the HDD space ~~"Acer Aspire 5920 Notebook Laptop, Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0GHz, 15.4" TFT, 2048MB RAM, 120GB Hard-drive, DVD±RW, Intel GraphicsX3100, Integ Webcam, WiFi, Vista Home Premium"

Acer Aspire 5920 Notebook Laptop, Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0GHz, 15.4" TFT, 2048MB RAM, 120GB Hard-drive, DVD±RW, Intel GraphicsX3100, Integ Webcam, WiFi, Vista Home Premium

Acer
Sales Rank: 10672

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 Great Laptop for the price but beware of the HDD space, 2008-05-11

Great laptop for the price, but beware of the HDD space.

Its supposed to be 120GB, but you will not get that much space.

Acer say 1KB is 1000 bytes, but computers say 1KB is 1024 bytes (2^10...PCs like binary)

This is how PCs count it...
1KB = 2^10 bytes (1024 bytes)
1MB = 2^20 (1024 * 1024 bytes)
1GB = 2^30 (1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes)

This is how Acer counts it...
1KB = 1,000 bytes
1MB = 1,000,000 bytes
1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes

Acer say you have 120GB, which they count as 120,000,000,000 bytes

however: 120,000,000,000 / (2^30) = ~ 111.76 GB

So, you get 111.76 GB real HDD with this laptop. Then again Acer uses some hidden partition etc for recovery, which takes away 10GB. So you are left with around 100GB.

From 100GB, Windows Vista and Acer tools will take away around 20GB. So the remaining usuable space is around 80GB.

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