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Originally posted by chabig: You mean "respectively." But besides that, 15GB is 15GB. Once you start quoting the number of songs, you have to make assumptions regarding song length and bit rate. Doing some math, I've calculated that Dell is using 64Kbps to get their marketing numbers, while Apple is using 128Kbps. |
Exactly. Dell gets their figures by cranking the compression way up past acceptable levels. Out of AAC, WMA, and Ogg, not a single one sounds good at 64kbps, and mp3 at that bitrate is just plain unacceptable except maybe for spoken-word only.