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Old 10-23-2007, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by TurboFool View Post
It really is absurd. Never did understand why there's a portion set aside for the OS and then it still takes from the rest of the memory.
You're confusing memory, and storage. It's similar to a PC, where say, your windows install uses up some of your RAM, for itself, and then programs use up more RAM on top of that, in fact, the design is the same. The partition is for the storage of the OS.

Michael