10-07-2006, 02:45 PM

i have the 80 gig macbook, and the only thing i've put on it is about 6 gigs of music and that's it. but when i click on the hard drive it says i have only 48 gigs free. what happened to the other 30 or so gigs? i can see that the computer would need 10 gigs for running applications, but close to 30? am i missing something? i've heard people talk about omni-something or other to clean the harddrive, but i don't really want to pay to get free space i should already have. thanks for any help!

10-07-2006, 02:58 PM

Well, an 80gb hard drive is really only 74gb of space, since 1gb=1,000,000,000 bytes. Then the OS and other stuff add up quick.