I have just installed Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit on my laptop and on the system monitor it only shows 7.2 GB
of RAM and not 8 GB
.
Why is that?
I have just installed Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit on my laptop and on the system monitor it only shows 7.2 GB
of RAM and not 8 GB
.
Why is that?
This is likely to be caused by different understandings of what 1GB, 1MB and what 1KB is.
1KB could mean 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes. The same is true for MB, GB, TB etc. In this case I guess that the manufacturer defined one KB as 1000 bytes (and so on), but in the System Monitor 1KB is defined as 1024 bytes.