Mac Book OSX 10..4 Memory

Question

I just bouhgt a Mac Book 1.83GHZ Duo Core with 60G of memory... However I only show 34G left. Did Apple install that much software to warrant using up 25G of memory..?

Answer 1

I just bouhgt a Mac Book 1.83GHZ Duo Core with 60G of
memory... However I only show 34G left. Did Apple
install that much software to warrant using up 25G of
memory..?
Part of what you are noticing is the difference in how hard drive capacities are reported by the manufacturer vs. how your computer interprets capacity.
Hard drive manufacturers report capacity using base 10 numbers where 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Your computer which is based on binary uses as base 2 calculation and considers 1GB to equal 1,073,741,824 Bytes.
Look at your 60GB hard drive capacity as 60,000,000,000 and divide that by what the computer considers as 1GB 1,073,741,824. Your result will be around 55.879GB.
That accounts for where 4+ GB of the "60GB" went right from the start.
Formatting also takes a small amount of space for cataloging data. This varies depending on operating system and the type of format used. This is another reason manufacturers never advertise a "formatted" capacity for their drives.
If you have not installed anything else on the computer yet then yes the rest is being used by the OS and whatever else has been installed on it by Apple.
You may wish to un-install Trial software and any other applications you know you will never use in order to regain some hard drive space.
Sorry if this was a lengthier answer than you wanted. Tried to balance between giving details while leaving a lot out of what is really a much more technical answer than I gave.