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This is the same B.S. that happened with the Xbox 360 hard drives. In 2006 Microsoft sold a 20GB hard drive for $120 (which could have bought at least a non-br
by engtech 14y ago
This is the same B.S. that happened with the Xbox 360 hard drives.
In 2006 Microsoft sold a 20GB hard drive for $120 (which could have bought at least a non-branded 100 GB hard drive)
When you used it with the 360, the hard drive would only report 14 GB because 6GB were used for the OS.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911593 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911593
FYI Apple's operating system takes up 1GB, so this is relevant because a 32GB Surface has a much usable storage as a 16GB iPad (source: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-storage-size-2012-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-storage-siz...)
- lloeki 14y ago> 6GB were used for the OS. Not really the same though, since the XBox OS fully resides in Flash/ROM/however-you-want-to—call-it-internal-storage 16MB (megabytes!) filesystem, and you can readily boot without the hard disk[0]. Those 6GB were merely "set aside". The price is a complete rip-off though. [0] this may have changed since NXE, but the OS is still extremely small by today's standards, e.g the last one is 113MB: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/system-updates/system-updates-info#00569e16d2844366beafb52b4d747a77* http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/system-updates/system...
- Brentley_11 14y agoAs of November 19, 2008 the Xbox OS actually requires additional disk space. It's why they discontinued the Xbox 360 Arcade console package since it didn't come with a hard drive. "While previous system updates have been stored on internal memory, the NXE was the first to require a storage device—at least a 128 MB memory card or a hard drive." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#New_Xbox_Experience http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360#New_Xbox_Experience