Brand new Macbook pro using 169gb in "other" files

I had about 75 gb on my old computer (Macbook Pro 2006). I backed up onto an also brand new external hard drive. After making a new user account then deleting it and using migration assistant, 169gb is showing other files. I used it a few times but deleted the account with the files so maybe there's a copy lurking somewhere? I googled my heart out. I tried OmniDiskSweeper and Space Gremlin but I can't seem to find the problem. I tried to erase deleted space on the hard drive but I'm not sure that was the right thing. Any help would be appreciated!

From what I've heard and read the iWork apps aren't normally installed. But that might of been with systems bought right after the notice of those apps being available for free with a Purchase of a New Mac.
Apple's manufacturers product many units each day. Some sit for weeks or more waiting to be shipped out and or in the Apple warehouse waiting to be bought. I wouldn't worry about it and it seems the 3 cycle count is fairly normal with the Retina models.

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