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<blockquote data-quote="fiveightandten" data-source="post: 383150" data-attributes="member: 24555"><p>Regardless of any misunderstandings due to terminology...</p><p></p><p>Here's how much the main OS X components take up on my machine:</p><p>System- 1.6 GB</p><p>Library- 8.74 GB</p><p>Applications (I have 61 total, not including utilities or MS office stuff)- 2.99 GB</p><p></p><p>TOTAL: 13.33 GB</p><p></p><p>I'm still new to the operating system, so if i'm wrong in assuming that these are the folders that house the main components of the operating system, please correct me. </p><p></p><p>But just to get an idea of things, I have an 80GB HD. About 74.5GB available after formatting and such. I have about 2.5 GB of pictures, 6.5 GB of music, 1GB of video, and probably another 1 GB of random stuff on my machine (documents, PDF files, ect). That makes for about 11 GB of my stuff on there. </p><p></p><p>I have 27 GB used, and 47.5 GB available. So of the 27 GB used, 11 GB of it is personal files, leaving 16 GB taken up by other stuff. I know that some things like the language files can take up as much as 2GB, which some people delete. </p><p></p><p>Based on all this, i'd say that you use up between 13 GB and 16 GB of disk space towards OS X and applications on your machine. This will vary depending on which version you have, how updated your software is, how many applications you have, ect. I have over 60 applications loaded on mine. I have 4 web browsers...just because. The music I have will play continuously for almost 4 days straight. With an 80 GB HD, I think 47 GB of free space after that stuff is reasonable. </p><p></p><p>Again, i'm not extremely familiar with the architecture of the OS, but that's what I see going on in my machine. Hope it helps. </p><p></p><p>-Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fiveightandten, post: 383150, member: 24555"] Regardless of any misunderstandings due to terminology... Here's how much the main OS X components take up on my machine: System- 1.6 GB Library- 8.74 GB Applications (I have 61 total, not including utilities or MS office stuff)- 2.99 GB TOTAL: 13.33 GB I'm still new to the operating system, so if i'm wrong in assuming that these are the folders that house the main components of the operating system, please correct me. But just to get an idea of things, I have an 80GB HD. About 74.5GB available after formatting and such. I have about 2.5 GB of pictures, 6.5 GB of music, 1GB of video, and probably another 1 GB of random stuff on my machine (documents, PDF files, ect). That makes for about 11 GB of my stuff on there. I have 27 GB used, and 47.5 GB available. So of the 27 GB used, 11 GB of it is personal files, leaving 16 GB taken up by other stuff. I know that some things like the language files can take up as much as 2GB, which some people delete. Based on all this, i'd say that you use up between 13 GB and 16 GB of disk space towards OS X and applications on your machine. This will vary depending on which version you have, how updated your software is, how many applications you have, ect. I have over 60 applications loaded on mine. I have 4 web browsers...just because. The music I have will play continuously for almost 4 days straight. With an 80 GB HD, I think 47 GB of free space after that stuff is reasonable. Again, i'm not extremely familiar with the architecture of the OS, but that's what I see going on in my machine. Hope it helps. -Nick [/QUOTE]
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