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[PSUs]| Friday 19th September 2003 |
Computer makers sued over 'deceptive' hard drive sizes
10:55AM, Friday 19th September 2003
Four Los Angeles residents are suing the world's leading computer manufacturers, alleging that they mislead customers when advertising the size of their hard drives.
Reuters reports that the lawsuit focuses on the fact that although computers write data in the binary system drive sizes are described using decimal.
Consequently, a hard drive advertised as 20GB provides just 18.6GB of usable space. As drives get bigger so does the disparity; at 150GB the difference is up to 10GB.
Apple, Dell, Gateway, HP, IBM, Sharp, Sony, Toshiba are all targeted and the plaintiffs are seeking an injunction to prevent this 'deceptive' practice in future, compensation and 'disgorgement' of past profits resulting from this practice.
The plaintiffs are also seeking class-action status for the suit, which, if granted, would allow other digruntled disk owners to join.
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