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Frosstbyte · 11-05-2007, 11:53 AM

So I finally broke down and bought a MacBook and, so far, it's treating me quite well. It's doing everything I need it to and Leopard is clean and easy to use and all that jazz.

I have one major problem, though. I have an 80 gig hard drive in this machine, and I brought it home and checked out much open space I had. To my dismay, it said I had only 57 gigs of open space.

My OS and packaged software is taking up 23 gigs of space? What in god's name is pre-installed on this thing? Anyone know their way around a Mac well enough to tell me how to free up some of this. I'm not pushing my HD's limit (or anywhere close to it) but that's an absurd amount of stuff to be sitting on an harddrive when I pick it up from a store.

11-05-2007, 11:53 AM	#1 (permalink)
Frosstbyte Winter is Coming Location: The North	Why does my new MacBook have so much crap on it? So I finally broke down and bought a MacBook and, so far, it's treating me quite well. It's doing everything I need it to and Leopard is clean and easy to use and all that jazz. I have one major problem, though. I have an 80 gig hard drive in this machine, and I brought it home and checked out much open space I had. To my dismay, it said I had only 57 gigs of open space. My OS and packaged software is taking up 23 gigs of space? What in god's name is pre-installed on this thing? Anyone know their way around a Mac well enough to tell me how to free up some of this. I'm not pushing my HD's limit (or anywhere close to it) but that's an absurd amount of stuff to be sitting on an harddrive when I pick it up from a store.