From a Washington Post story last month about the guy who took on Apple when his Ipod’s battery died:
Like a doctor with zero bedside manner, Ryan pretty quickly gets to the point: Since Neistat’s iPod is past the year-long warranty, the cost of parts, labor and shipping will nearly equal the cost of a new machine, and so, Ryan suggests yet again, Neistat should probably just relax and buy a new iPod, which currently costs from $299 to $499, depending on the memory size.
No, no, no, no. It’s “depending on how much hard drive space is available.” Computers have two ways to store information: in “memory” — which is a zillion tiny transistors embedded in a silicon chip — and on a disk drive. “Memory” can be shorthand for “Random Access Memory” or “Read Only Memory” (two kinds of memory chips) but it never refers to space available on a disk drive — and nor should we.