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(SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB
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A gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes.
Examples of gigabytes in a Sentence
Despite their compact size, they are capable of holding hundreds of songs with a few gigabytes of space.
Hard drive is also designated as Gigabytes, so don't confused hard drive with memory.
From gigahertz to gigabytes, what should you look for when looking for a new PC?
It comes with a built-in two gigabytes (eight gigs for the Nookcolor) of memory which allows it to hold up to 1,500 books, magazines and newspapers (6,000 for Nook Color).
You can purchase a Latitude XT2 with either a 1.2 or a 1.4 GHz processor, with memory available from one to five gigabytes.
Hard drives range between 64 and 128 gigabytes.
Over 50 gigabytes of information can be stored on the PS3 disc as opposed to almost 9 gigabytes on an Xbox 360 game disc.
The small discs are only a few inches in diameter and have a capacity of approximately 1.5 gigabytes.
At first, people were thinking that Sony would shove 8GB of NAND Flash in there, but more recent information has been pointing toward 4 gigabytes instead.
Other updates include talks that the PS3 will read dual-layer Blu-Ray discs (50 gigabytes of storage), and will feature a Gigabit Ethernet adapter.
Most legitimate Dreamcast games were in GD-ROM format, which held 1.2 gigabytes of data, but there were smaller independently created games that were CDs, and as a result, could not be played on version 2 Dreamcasts.
The hard drive has also been increased in size to 120 gigabytes.
The amount of data consumed over the cellular connection will vary based on a number of different factors, but you can easily rifle through several megabytes or even gigabytes of data by listening to music online through your iPhone.
On the bright side, the iPhone can be purchased with as much as 32 gigabytes of internal storage, providing plenty of room for family photos and more.
If you help your child learn the basics of computer operation or enroll him in a simple Gigabytes course, he can hop on the Internet whenever appropriate to learn and play at the same time!