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> They tripled storage requirements > Storage: 16 GB for 32 bit OS and 20 GB for 64-bit OS Though in reality those storage requirements are incorrect for curr

> They tripled storage requirements > Storage: 16 GB for 32 bit OS and 20 GB for 64-bit OS Though in reality those storage requirements are incorrect for current Win10. You can't fully update the OS in that small a space, at least not without some technical hacking that the average user is not going to care for. And that is before installing anything else. 32Gb should be considered the minimum for Win10 currently IMO (maybe 24Gb at a push) so the really requirements have only doubled and hopefully in that they've included much more wiggle room (so the new requirement is “to run well with common apps and some data” rather than “to operate at all”) meaning this is not comparing like for like. Also having run Win10 on 2Gb some time ago and finding that painful, I doubt a fully updated instance will operate acceptably at all in that little.

tux3 5y ago
Just a nitpick, but Gb is usually used in networking & storage to mean "gigabit", which is an eighth of a GB, or "gygabyte" Not to mention that these are frequently mixed up with non-SI units GiB and Gibit that are multiples of 1024 instead of 1000. Storage size units are confusing =)
- jillesvangurp 5y ago
  The arcane versions of those units have meaning only within the circle of people that actually understand them. Which makes them fairly useless other than for the purpose of being pedantic, wowing or misleading people. For the laymen, kilo means 1000, mega means 1000000 and giga means 1000000000. Having gamed on a machine when I was young that only had 64 * 1024 * 8 bits, I can appreciate the order of magnitudes here. Slightly over 0.5 megabit. But still. Who actually cares when a mobile phone might transmit that in a few ms (i.e. a few thousandths of a second).
  - tux3 5y ago
    I've seen a lot of people have a hard time with the difference between GB and Gb, so I'm always happy to explain. In this case there's no possible confusion, but I figure it can't hurt to know which is which =) Cheers

tux3 5y ago

Just a nitpick, but Gb is usually used in networking & storage to mean "gigabit", which is an eighth of a GB, or "gygabyte" Not to mention that these are frequently mixed up with non-SI units GiB and Gibit that are multiples of 1024 instead of 1000. Storage size units are confusing =)

jillesvangurp 5y ago
The arcane versions of those units have meaning only within the circle of people that actually understand them. Which makes them fairly useless other than for the purpose of being pedantic, wowing or misleading people. For the laymen, kilo means 1000, mega means 1000000 and giga means 1000000000. Having gamed on a machine when I was young that only had 64 * 1024 * 8 bits, I can appreciate the order of magnitudes here. Slightly over 0.5 megabit. But still. Who actually cares when a mobile phone might transmit that in a few ms (i.e. a few thousandths of a second).
- tux3 5y ago
  I've seen a lot of people have a hard time with the difference between GB and Gb, so I'm always happy to explain. In this case there's no possible confusion, but I figure it can't hurt to know which is which =) Cheers