Comments

You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name

Your e-mail (optional)

Website (optional)

	My Original Nic Pic-a-Nic Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Foto

Submit your comments on this article

-Short Attention Span Theater-

Lawyer Sues Microsoft Over Surface Tablet Storage

2012-11-16

[An Nahar] A California lawyer is suing Microsoft Corp., claiming the Surface tablet he bought doesn't have all the storage space the company advertised.

Andrew Sokolowski, a lawyer in Los Angeles, claims that he bought a Surface with 32 gigabytes of storage last week. But he quickly ran out of space after loading it with music and Microsoft Word documents.

He discovered that a significant portion of the 32 GB storage space was being used by the operating system and pre-installed apps such as Word and Excel. Only 16 GB was available for him to use.

Posted by:Fred

#6 Correct me if I'm wrong here, but my understanding is that most of the difference in advertised capacity vs formatted capacity comes from how capacity is calculated. With RAM you use multiples of 1024. HD manufacturers use multiples of 1000. So what happens when you start using RAM as an HD? Use the lower number and sell me less RAM than you advertised.

Posted by: Iblis 2012-11-16 15:16

#5 Say what, Iblis? Same file structures, same storage overhead.

Posted by: lotp 2012-11-16 13:54

#4 It's a Microsoft product. Have they ever shipped lightweight code? Ever? He's lucky it runs at all.

On a related note, I understand why a 2TB hard drive does not hold 2TB's of data. It's OK. I get it. But the excuses ring hollow for SSD's.

Posted by: Iblis 2012-11-16 12:48

#3 Here's his LinkedIn profile. I checked a few places and he doesn't seem to be the serial litigant at this point in his career.

Posted by: Raj 2012-11-16 11:53

#2 go ahead, delete the BIOS and Operating System, you'll have more room

Posted by: Frank G 2012-11-16 11:20

#1 Should have read the fine print.

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2012-11-16 09:37

00:00