gigabyte
gi guh bahyt
- n a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
- n a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
- Standard PCs bought more than 18 months ago typically came with less than a gigabyte of RAM; they may be running painfully slow with today's more demanding programs.
- The iPod turned out to be a palm-size music player with a five-gigabyte hard drive (a 10-GB version was released two weeks ago).
- That isn't anything like the limit you can get up to 344 hours on the 320-gigabyte drive but it's enough to record every single West Wing ever broadcast.