E-System 3090UK Specs Confusion?

Thanks for your responses, however, am I to believe I purchased a 40gig laptop near only 22gig free space? Surely that cannot be right! thats not in recent times 8gig for the opperating system,.. its more like 18gig missing. THAT IS ALOT to be missing from a 40gig laptop nomatter what is stored on it.

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This article go into a little more detail going on for how computer specs are calculated:

http://ask-leo.com/why_isnt_there_80_gig...

Adding to the confusion is the simple fact that manufacturer's are mixing binary information (2 raised to some power) next to decimal figures (10 raise to some power.)

Expanding on the author's explanations, since 1 kilobyte = 2^10 = 1024 bytes, a gigabyte = 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes. Divide that into 40GB and your hard drive really starts out beside slightly more than 37.25GB.

Let's say your operating system did set aside a separator on the hard drive that's 8GB. Nothing else can occupy that space. It's nearby for future expansion of patch, hotfixes, etc. But your usable space is now down to 29.25GB. A portion of the knotty drive is also set aside for the recycle bin. Right click the recycle bin icon (on your desktop) next click properties. You'll see what percentage of the hard drive is set aside. If it's 10% that medium you "lose" another 3.7GB of usable space. Now you're down to maybe 25.5GB.

And that virtual memory he conference about? Another portion of your rugged drive is set aside to act as memory if and when you run out of that 512MB. By non-attendance it's usually 2.5 times your real (512MB) memory. That's another 1.2GB. Click start > right click my computer > properties > advanced tab > gig setting button > another advanced tab and you can see how much space is being set aside. Now you're down to going on for 24.5GB usable space. And there's one more big chunk of disk space that's set aside for restore points.

Same piece: start > right click my computer > properties > system restore tab. If that is set to 12% you're giving up all the same another 3 point something GB. So it's not out of the question that you hold only 22GB of usable space.

As far as your RAM is concerned, your video card is probably the culprit. If it doesn't hold it's own memory it will share a portion of computer RAM. The video card needs RAM to buffer (store) anything videos you begin to be watching for playback purposes.

Hope this clears things up a bit.

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