35gb of software pre-installed in Intel iMac ?

I received my new iMac Core Duo today and noticed that I have only 215gb available on what was supposed to be a 250gb HDD. Does this computer REALLY ship with that much software pre-installed? When I click on "applications" and go to "info", it only says that there is 4.37gb of Apps. Where's the other 30gb?
Any reassurance that this is normal would be wonderful!

The iLife support files will be accounting for a bunch of that. GarageBand's loops take up almost 2GB, and iDVD's themes take up over 1.5GB. So there's almost 4GB just for those two apps (those files reside in the Library -> Application Support folder, not in the Applications folder).
Note as well that a "250GB" hard drive doesn't really give you 250GB usable. This is caused by a difference in how different entities define a 'GB'. All drive and media manufacturers quote capacity using 1,000 bytes per kilobyte while other entities, particularly in computer operating systems, use 1024 bytes per kilobyte (there's a new term that has been proposed for the 1024 usage to clear up the confusion, but no one uses it). So a 250GB hard drive really has a usable capacity of about 232GB.
So taking your 232GB capacity and subtracting 4.4GB for the apps themselves, 4GB for the support files, and probably about 1.5GB for the OS, plus some associated other files (mostly invisible) and you come out about right.

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