Microsoft Being Sued Over Surface Advertised Storage Claims
Well that sure didn’t take long at all. A lawsuit was just filed in Los Angeles over the storage claims of the Microsoft Surface tablet and that there’s really not that much space available. Well sort of, it’s basically claiming that too much space is being taken up by the operating system. I sort of have to agree, I buy a 16gb tablet and find I can only really use 12gb of that space, but that’s my Android tablet. Apparently it’s much worse with the Surface, a 32gb Surface only has 16gb of real storage you can use, that’s pretty bad. Something is wrong with the whole system really. Just like all advertised storage sizes annoy me, like I just got a 64gb microSDXC card but that’s only 59gb of usable space. I’ve always been one who has thought the system needs changing for truth in advertising, and maybe a lawsuit is the way to go.
You can read all about it over on Consumerist: http://consumerist.com/2012/11/15/lawsuit-aims-to-call-bs-on-microsoft-surface-memory-size-claims/
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The real problem with a lawsuit like this is that anyone who feels ‘wronged’ can just return the damn thing…
I don’t know about that… I kind of have to agree with the lawsuit. If I buy a 16gb tablet I think I should get 16gb of usable space. We have all just seemed to accept the outright lie of it all when it comes to storage capacity of what we’re buying. It’s misleading advertising really. I think they should advertise things as what they really are. My Iconia is 16gb but it’s really only 12gb, I think it should be advertised as a 12gb Acer Iconia A500 and NOT a 16gb. Again we’ve all just come to accept the outright lies and it’s annoying.
That’s just like hard drives or any other storage. I feel that if I buy a hard drive advertised with 1tb of storage that’s what I should get, NOT 931gb of storage, which is what you get. Give us the real USABLE capacity and stop playing numbers games.
Ouch, half??
yeah i would love to see this get regulated. wish it didn’t have to be through a lawsuit, but something has to give
If your comments are the general consensus, then this lawsuit needs to be expanded to include every storage device that misrepresents actual available capacity. Which is basically ever storage device in the World. No reason to single out the Surface because the percentages are different.
And, doesn’t a class action suit require a certain percentage of participants. Aside from those West Coast iLovers not sure how this will go. I won’t be joining. I knew what I was getting, and really happy to have Office, along with the restore partition. Worth 10GB to me.