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Google added a faster and more energy efficient processor and upped the RAM to 16 megabytes.—Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024 That means Starlink can deliver download bandwidth in the hundreds of megabytes and, crucially, latency right down into the tens of milliseconds, rather than the half-second or more that geostationary satellites suffer from.—Barry Collins, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024 Servers and workstations need a lot of computing power, making having as many cores as possible necessary—far more critical than a few extra megabytes of L3 cache.—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 24 July 2024 And with read speeds up to 800 megabytes per second, you won’t be stuck waiting for long periods when transferring files.—Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for megabyte
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from the fact that 1,048,576 (220) is the power of 2 closest to one million
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