Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 months agoWhy are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks?message-squaremessage-square69fedilinkarrow-up1149arrow-down13
arrow-up1146arrow-down1message-squareWhy are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks?Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square69fedilink
minus-squareHTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down8·10 months agoThe same exact reason ISPs sell bandwidth in Mb/s, instead of the proper unit. Quite simply, 500Mbit/s sounds a lot more impressive than 0.5Gbps or 62.5MB/s.
minus-squareSokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-210 months agoIt leads to a lot of confusion for customers though, who think their Internet connection is 8 times faster than it is.
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down8·10 months agoBut bits is the correct unit. Speed is measured in bits, storage is measured in Bytes (unless you are Microsoft) Your argument you be like saying 'why say a car that can do Kilometres per hour when it is really going cubic kilometres per hour.
minus-squaresevenapples@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·10 months agoNot really, since bits and bytes represent the same dimension of data. Your argument is like saying “why say a car can do km/h when it is really m/s”
The same exact reason ISPs sell bandwidth in Mb/s, instead of the proper unit.
Quite simply, 500Mbit/s sounds a lot more impressive than 0.5Gbps or 62.5MB/s.
It leads to a lot of confusion for customers though, who think their Internet connection is 8 times faster than it is.
Welcome to marketing.
But bits is the correct unit.
Speed is measured in bits, storage is measured in Bytes (unless you are Microsoft)
Your argument you be like saying 'why say a car that can do Kilometres per hour when it is really going cubic kilometres per hour.
Not really, since bits and bytes represent the same dimension of data.
Your argument is like saying “why say a car can do km/h when it is really m/s”