> GB here means 2^30, as it should when talking about base-2 memory. The only people who think it should be 10^9 are hard drive salesmen and the type of people who like to correct all their friends by saying “It’s centripetal, not centrifugal force!”. Also “gibibyte” sounds like Pokémon invented by a first grader.
This attitude ruined it for me. You're a technologist. You should care about vocabulary and precision. You are on the wrong side of history for both of these things - a gigabyte is 10^9 bytes as per SI, and centrifugal force is fictitious.
I challenge you: If a 1 GHz processor can process 1 byte on every cycle, how long does it take to process a 1 GB file? Hopefully you'll see the error in your ways.
Fragmenting the definition of the giga- prefix based on context leads us down some dark paths that we already traversed with the pound-mass vs. pound-force, pound Avoirdupois vs. pound Troy, fluid ounce vs. weight ounce, US gallon and UK gallon, liquid bushel vs. dry bushel, different varieties of tons, statute mile vs. nautical mile, and the list goes on.