How Much Memory does Mac OS X take?

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El Pucho

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HI , i just bought a 60GB MacBook Recently and i was asking myself, does it really take that much memory to install Mac OS X?

When i go to get info of my macintosh it says, i have capacity of 55.gb and that i have left 39gb after only installing the progrma, nothing else!! and its shows like i have used over 15 giga of memore, is that really normal??? im worry....please can some one help me?.:( ............Thanks.
 
What other apps have you installed on your new MacBook?

15 GB seems like a lot, but the iLife software can use most of that. GarageBand takes a huge amount of space (about 3 or 4 GB, I think) and iDVD takes almost as much.

If you use a utility such as Delocalizer, or Monolingual - http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13031 - you can delete all the foreign language support files. This will give you back at least 3 GB, maybe more.
 
There's nothing to worry about; it's perfectly normal. Your MacBook came with a bunch of big apps like iMovie and iDVD. Those take a lot of space — several gigs each. It also has a wide array of printer drivers which you might never need, but will spare you a lot of headaches if you ever do need them.

So if you really need the disk space, you could clear up a lot. A fully-functional installation of OS X, without extras like iMovie or unused drivers, would take about 5GB, give or take.
 
thanks a lot, the second time that i reinstall the system it took almost an hour to fully install so maybe thats it, you are right, macbook does actually have a lot of programs and utilities that maybe take like 10 to 15 gb, i will surely erase things that i dont really put to practice, but now im relief. Thanks guys.
 
Problem? You mean someone told you to reinstall everything because you thought there was too much space used? Was that your only problem? I hope you don't go back there - or don't get any opinions from that so-called Mac tech.... :) Sounds like a Windows-kind of answer....
 
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