Posts by Dabogues

Re: You say false advertising, I say lack of understanding of technology.

Dude, you need to chill out. I understand the technology, and it still bugs me that the industry continues to mislabel these things. It's particularly important with lower capacity devices. I bought a 16 gig N7 full aware that the actually storage would not be 16 gigs. I get that. My whole point in the forum was that it's labeled one thing, in actuality is another number, and in terms of practical usage is even less. So now my "16 gig" device is really only 10 gig. You're totally going off on something that isn't the point.

A comment from the person who was actually quoted.

AC, thanks for differentiating from that comment. I'm actually the person who the article quotes as saying that, and this is my FULL comment from the forum (http://www.modaco.com/topic/356978-n7-slow-down-laggy/page__pid__2019222__st__20#entry2019222):

"So here I am, stuck with a device that is labeled for 16 GB storage, that in reality only has just over 13 GB of storage (don't get me started on how the industry can continue to get away with this), but due to performance issues, REALLY only has 9-10 GB of storage available for content and software (including the OS)."

Anyway, this is a real issue for the Nexus 7, and it sort of bugs me that the Register is basically claiming that it's difficult to fill up 16 gigs with just apps....uh, not really. At least, not if you play games.