Brand new MacBook - ? about hard drive space

I just received a new MacBook (with 60GB HD) as a gift and noticed that it has 38GB remaining right out of the box. Does this seem right? That seems like a lot of space to be taken up by the OS and default programs. Thanks!

No problem.I reccommend you continue to get a feel for OS X and figure out exactly what you want to do (And there's A LOT you can do) with your MacBook before you go trying to delete things just to save a few GB's of HD space.
Jim
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