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    New laptop: How to check SP1

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by gordonramsey, Dec 8, 2008.

  1. gordonramsey

    gordonramsey Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi Shiny new Samsung Q210 arrived today and going through all the updates available (64) SP1 wasn't amongst them. Do I assume the Home Premium which came with it included SP1 or is there a way to check? Please advise ...thanks in advance.
     
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    mk.2 Notebook Geek

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    I don't use Vista, but I believe you can check whether it has service pack 1 in System Properties.
     
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    right click computer -> properties it should say it near the top
     
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    Correct you are ....Thanks!
     
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    Just checking over the computer ...you all remember that day when you're so keen to power up and set up that the box and wrapper are still strewn around the floor whilst you play. SP1 came installed. Just checking the memory and it's supposed to have 320Gb ...Drive C shows 125GB free of 144GB and Drive D shows 143GB of 143GB. Errr that makes 287GB?????
     
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte#Consumer_confusion

    Advertised GB always mean 1,000,000,000 bytes where as an actual GB is 1,073,741,824 bytes.
    So, 320GB hard drive would have only ~298GB of space you can use.

    However, your laptop reported 287GB, that's ~11GB missing. It could be your laptop preserves some space for system restoration purpose (you can restore your laptop to factory default stage without using DVD). I don't know about Samsung but Vaio usually take around 6-10 GB for system backup.
     
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    Basically, because a "GB" to the hard-drive marketing guys isn't the same thing as a "GB" to the programmers. Basically, the hdd marketing guys think of a GB as being 1,000,000,000 bytes, whereas the programming guys (you know, the ones who really can do binary arithmetic) know that a GB is really 1,073,741,824 bytes. Basically, your hard drive's actual capacity, in GB's defined properly (i.e., by programmers) is about 93% of what the marketing guys think it is (i.e., 1,000,000,000 divided by 1,073,741,824). That should give your hdd an actual size of about 298GB; the difference between that and the actual of 287 - i.e., about 11GB - is probably due to a variety of different capacity losses, like some bad sectors, file system overhead, and whatnot.

    There's a little Wikipedia article on this point here.
     
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    And whilst we're on the subject is there a way of checking how much Ram you're using at any given time? I know you're right ...what a Rock n' Roll life I lead! Layman's instructions please if you will. Thanks in advance!
     
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    Ctrl+Shift+Esc (Task Manager) > Performance > Physical Memory

    Or Run > Msinfo32 > System Summary > (Total - Available) Physical Memory
     
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    Remember, there are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Dec 8, 2008
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