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Jun 29, 2016 2:11 AM in response to alisonelsby Roger Wilmut1,A good chunk of the storage is taken up by the system and the included apps, just as on a desktop computer. 32GB is the overall storage, not the available storage.
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Jun 29, 2016 3:17 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1by ziggy29,To add to what Roger posted above, most of the time marketing departments refer to one billion bytes as a 'GB', but in reality, as reported by the system, a gigabyte is actually 2^30 bytes, which is 1,073,741,824 bytes.
So if a storage device claims 32GB of storage, it likely has 32 billion bytes of storage, maybe slightly more. When the system sees that much storage, it will report it using the "binary" definition of GB (1 GB = 2^30 bytes) and 32 billion bytes will report as 29.80 GB.
So really the 32 GB storage as reported by manufacturers is 29.80 GB to "the system". Add to that the system software and apps that come with it and that's why you'll see less than that reported as available; in the case of the OP, 26.5GB.
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Jun 29, 2016 3:32 AM in response to alisonelsby JasonNvm,Two persons above completely explained whats going on with it.
the only exception in my life so far is i got a 8.1 GB thumb drive when it claims 8GB xdxd, but guess it in random junk pail now
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Jun 29, 2016 4:16 AM in response to alisonelsby JMBernal,The above answers are correct, but if you'd like more info about why the total storage and the available storage for use are different take a look at How OS X and iOS report storage capacity - Apple Support
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Jun 29, 2016 11:21 PM in response to Roger Wilmut1by alisonels,Ohh i didn't know about that, thank you