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An example of a gigabyte is about 200 songs stored on an mp3 player.
Calculations were performed on a 16 processor Beowulf cluster and required approximately 1 gigabyte of RAM per process.
Older machines usually have megabyte chips and newer ones have larger gigabyte chips installed.
A computer with a 1 Terabyte (TB) hard drive is overkill for most, but neither should you settle for an 80 Gigabyte (GB) drive.
No problem, said Yahoo last week, Yahoo mail users can have a gigabyte too.
But hard drive manufacturers have always used the term gigabyte to mean a thousand million bytes - 1,000,000,000 - over 7% less.