Sentence examples for megabytes from inspiring English sources

He could soon have access to the internet at more than six megabytes a second providing he is prepared to pay $140 a month instead of $21 for his existing DSL connection.A 70-fold increase in speed for a sevenfold increase in price would seem a bargain.

The company is planning a low-latency fibre network that will be capable of delivering speeds of over 100 megabytes a second for communities of 50,000-500,000 50,000-500,000

When audio is not being beamed out live, it is kept on 400 workstations that together store 1.5m songs or 50 terabytes (ie, 50m megabytes) of data more than four times that held in the Library of Congress.

Where a mid-range smart-phone would consume about 100 megabytes of data a month, more advanced models like the Apple iPhone or Motorola Droid, with fully fledged browsers and access to thousands of downloadable applications, tend to consume over 500 megabytes a month.

While the beefier NT needs even more memory (16 megabytes is a start), it delivers more in exchange: better networking, more reliability, faster operations.Microsoft has, intentionally or not, lent credence to the leapfrog idea: for software companies to win a coveted Windows 95 logo for their programs, they must make them compatible with Windows NT as well.

Windows CE was a nifty little operating system that could run in a few megabytes of memory.

Packet 'bombs' of hundreds of megabytes in size would be sent first to one address, then another," says Linnar Viik, Estonia's top internet guru.

The consequence at CERN, specifically, is that a few hundred megabytes of its 100-petabyte tape repository are, on average, lost every year.

Here, the sudden proliferation of portable devices from mobile phones and personal digital assistants to digital cameras, mini-camcorders and digital music players—has been a godsend.Of necessity, such gizmos rely on memory chips that use little juice while storing megabytes of digital information.

This is equivalent to half a million libraries the size of America's Library of Congress, or about 800 megabytes per person per year.Almost all new information (92%) is stored on magnetic media, primarily hard disks.

Over the same period, the cost of storage capacity has fallen from more than $5 a megabyte to a mere five cents.Earlier this month IBM announced the latest downward twist in this virtuous spiral: "Microdrive", a disk that packs 340 megabytes of data (roughly equivalent to 340 copies of the 445-page Starr report) into a cartridge smaller than a book of matches.