Base-10 File Sizes

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So, Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) will be using base-10 file sizes. There has been a lot of nerd outcry over this, but frankly, I think it’s about freaking time.

There is absolutely no reason to use base-2 file sizes. Yes, computers deal with things in terms of base 2, but nobody else does. When you look at a file that is 104768926 bytes big, you think, “oh, 105 megabytes,” not “100 megabytes.” As files get bigger and bigger, the disparity between MB and MiB gets worse and worse.

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