Brand New rMBP Hard Drive already filled up?

I know I have posted already about this, but just wanted to put it out there again with a different purpose. Does anyone have a brand new base model macbook pro retina and knows how much of there hard drive was already taken up? I just got mine and it appears their is over 20gb of stuff already on it. Does anyone know how much space is used on a brand new one? Should I return this one or maybe a fresh install? Now be aware, that since I got the computer I have put about 10gb of stuff on it, with now 35gb being used up on my drive. Thanks. Any help would be appreciated.

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