How To Use Megabyte In A Sentence

  • When you bought that new computer a couple of years ago, you probably thought its 500-megabyte hard disk would last for ever.
  • Uses can also use the catalogue program to select their put together their own disks for £8.95 per compressed megabyte.
  • Then there's the cost — all too easily you'll be in pricy pay-by-the-megabyte territory. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ram memory is measured in millions of bytes (megabytes).
  • No, your eyes do not deceive you - 85 games crammed on to one disc, a task made easier because most take up only a few megabytes each, but it is still a bargain.
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  • Here is a quick explanation of bytes, megabytes, and so on, and some estimates of the storage requirements of various sorts of information.
  • Expected to hit stores this fall, Thomson's LYRA is the first portable device that can play multiple audio formats; even better, it will use IBM's 340-megabyte microdrive to store up to nine hours of high-quality music. Marrying Music To The Pc
  • The monochrome screen is not backlit, and there are just 2 megabytes of memory.
  • Within a building, a local area network can transfer data at broadband speeds-10 megabytes per second or more.
  • It comes with eight megabytes of random access memory, a must since it also comes with Windows 95.
  • By Faré, Tue 13th Jan 2009 @ 11:51 am lzma makes total sense for long-term archiving, however, even more so than gzip or bzip2, it probably requires either having a very big block size how many megabytes? maybe 1MB from what squashfs experiments suggest. Snell-Pym » Backup system progress update
  • I just spent five minutes going through and deleting the optional clipart, templates, international options, plugins, and help files, and got it down to 6 megabytes. Turn Thumb Drives Into Feature-Packed Giveaway Drives | Lifehacker Australia
  • The seriously large (around 500 megabytes) app is also chock-full of what one presumes is high-ticket advertising, and there's an interesting innovation here - the clickability of The Register
  • The monochrome screen is not backlit, and there are just 2 megabytes of memory.
  • In the distant past the megabyte and gigabyte were honorable quantities of storage and we referred to them by their full names; now they are too familiar, and we call them "meg" and "gig. Ask MetaFilter
  • • The File interface, which adds better file-handling features to browsers, for example letting people upload a video in separate pieces called blobs so a 500-megabyte file transfer won't be derailed by a flaky network. The Download Blog: Software tips, news, and opinions from Download.com editors
  • By Faré, Tue 13th Jan 2009 @ 11:51 am lzma makes total sense for long-term archiving, however, even more so than gzip or bzip2, it probably requires either having a very big block size how many megabytes? maybe 1MB from what squashfs experiments suggest. Snell-Pym » Backup system progress update
  • You need hundreds of megabytes of spare disk space to store your movie, you can't use a Mac and if you try to enlarge the image (using a media player), picture quality suffers.
  • The hardware was comparable to the wave of '3M' (named for their megaflop processors, megapixel displays and megabytes of memory) workstations that IBM, Sun and Apollo all had in the pipeline. OSNews
  • There are 8 bits in a byte, 1024 bytes in a kilobyte, and 1024 kilobytes in a megabyte.
  • We used to measure data in terms of kilobytes and megabytes; now gigabytes and terabytes are the terms commonly discussed.
  • The 40 megabyte hard disk has an average access time of 23.9 milliseconds.
  • We used to measure data in terms of kilobytes and megabytes; now gigabytes and terabytes are the terms commonly discussed.
  • His fingers are splayed out so that he can feel the very pulse of hundreds of megabytes of information flowing into him.
  • We used a folder with 893MB of mixed data, with file lengths varying from a few kilobytes to tens of megabytes - 1470 files in all, some in the root directory, some in folders.
  • The program takes up 2.5 megabytes of disk space.
  • Although the buffer pool did not exceed 1 GB in the large-database tests, the smaller database and greater concurrency tests used every megabyte possible.
  • Since I am now about 500 megabytes beyond its capacity, I need to manually 'uncheck' songs so that it can synchronize properly. A sibilant intake of breath
  • I've been writing for years about how the price of hard drives has tumbled down to a penny a megabyte and here I was paying almost 20 cents a megabyte!
  • Within a building, a local area network can transfer data at broadband speeds-10 megabytes per second or more.
  • Roughly eight million bits make a megabyte.
  • There are actually three definitions of a Megabyte, one decimal, one binary, and one that refers specifically to 1.44MB floppoes.
  • Hard disk capacity is measured in gigabytes - a gigabyte being roughly 1,000 megabytes.
  • I now know there are eight bits in a byte, and 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte.
  • Enter the terabyte - 1,000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes. Times, Sunday Times
  • A print server can rip, store and queue hundreds of megabytes of print jobs without slowing down the network.
  • I deleted all my old stuff from my ISP's webspace, checked I was under the 10-megabyte limit, and switched over to the new account.
  • I now know there are eight bits in a byte, and 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte.
  • I am sure there must be millions like me who are mystified by bytes, megabytes, gigabytes or whatever they are called.
  • They start as low as 500GB and can scale up to tens of terabytes, for an investment as low as five cents per megabyte.
  • The state's Silicon Valley also contributed to English's high tech lingo: software, hardware and megabyte.
  • The software requires only five megabytes of hard disk space and 16 megabytes of random access memory (Ram).
  • You can use standard wireless technology in hand-helds that have a huge capacity - they can have up to 250 megabytes now.
  • The program takes up 2.5 megabytes of disk space.
  • The Editor's Internet service provider will not process files larger than two megabytes.
  • In digital terms, the sky would normally require about 0.4 megabytes of data.
  • Each 1/24th of a second re-quires five megabytes of memory. High Tech In Toon Town
  • the capacity of a hard disk drive is usually expressed in megabytes
  • We WILL be closely watching how long it takes for the prices to drop to realistic levels, how long it takes for common wananchi to actually see the speed benefits, how much bickering occurs as inland countries have to kowtow for access to the ocean cable links, and how much corporate foot-dragging will occur to stimy user access in order to maintain their revenue margins (e.g. thru per-megabyte pricing). Global Voices in English » Africa: The arrival of Seacom cable sparks debate
  • From Woolamaloo (not to be confused with the Sydney Surburb with a similar name), comes a few megabytes of extremely unsubtle double entendre.
  • We used to measure data in terms of kilobytes and megabytes; now gigabytes and terabytes are the terms commonly discussed.
  • You'll also need ‘several hundred megabytes plus several hundred more’ for temporary files and backups, so start tidying those hard disks, people.
  • Most email systems reliably allow file attachments of 1 megabyte or less.
  • If you must deal with many-megabyte XML documents, it's often impractical to spend the memory, disk space, and CPU overhead to manipulate such huge documents.
  • But once hard drives broke the 100-megabyte barrier, that was no longer feasible.

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