BRAND NEW Macbook Pro with decreasing disk space

I recently bought a Macbook Pro with supposedly around 750 GB of disk space. However, when I checked it before I installed windows on it, I noticed that there was only about 430 GB available.
I downloaded less than 10 apps, and only brought over less than 50 GB worth of pictures, audio and movies from my Windows.
Can someone PLEASE explain to me how I managed to acquire almost 300 GB worth of this 'other'? An explanation besides 'things that don't fit into other categories' would be very helpful.
This is less than a week old and there's almost nothing new that I've created or worked on with this Macbook. My apps don't take up that much space, I don't have backups, Time Capsule is NOT on, and the most I've done with changing system preferences is to change my wallpaper and screensaver. So where is this all coming from? I honestly feel that I've been cheated of the 300 GB which was almost the disk space of my PC that ran Windows! And I never even used up that much since I bought my Windows!
At any rate, how do I get RID of it?

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