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I dunno if you noticed or if that was the joke. But you said "8 megs" three times in your comment when I think you meant to say "8 gigs". 1 gigabyte ~ 1024 megabytes. Just wanted to let you know in case it wasn't a joke about how 8 wasn't enough. That's all, thank you!
lol. Apparently my brain is broken.
Actually, 1 gigabyte (10^9^ B) is 1000 megabytes (10^6^ B), while one gibibyte (2^30^ B) corresponds to 1024 mebibytes (2^20^ B). I know that in some circles, 1 GB is treated as 1 GiB, so I don't blame you. This system of quantities is standardised internationally in order to conform with the SI (mega must mean a million times and not 2^20^ times), but many don't conform to it, such as Microsoft as far as I know.
Thank you for the correction and details.