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Old 05-11-2006
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It is not stupid. It is never stupid to ask questions.

OS X is Apple's operating system that runs on any of Apple's contemporary computers. OS X is a clone of Berkley UNIX but on a top of it it runs very cool Aqua graphic environment. It is very advanced and technically way more refined than X systems. Apple had a luxury of not caring about compatibility some 4 years ago so the design is really, really of tomorrow. You can get exhaustive info about it here.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/


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Originally Posted by Ecclesiastes
ok, you seem to have sold OS X to me but excuse me for sounding stupid, what exactly is OS X? I mean I could go and search ask.com but would be better if you told me coz you seem to like it? any links to have a look it?

thanks
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Old 05-11-2006
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Here are calculations:
Your drive is 80G by manufacturer's definition so it is 80x10e9 =80000000000
The real 80G would be 80xe30 = 85899345920
so your drive is roughly 6Gb less than if should be thanks to the way manufacturer counts. So the real size of the drive in normal numbers is 74G.
Now take 7% off, 74x0.93=68G that is less or more is what you have got.
The numbers are not exact because different hard drives have different physical parameters, as different number of surfaces, different ways to organize data (horizontal, vertical and so on).
You can do it with any hard drive to get the real size estimations.
 
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