Clearing up HD space

hello everybody!
got my macbook not too long ago and im loving it!
one small questino i have is about my HD space... i got a 60GB HD and ive only got 31.64 GB free (this is after about 7 gigs of programs have been installed including office etc as well as the basic ilife programs and some others) I was wondering is there a way that i can free up some space? is there like a huge chunk of uselessness that i can get rid of or do i just have to accept that with the programs and basics of tiger that it takes up about 25 gigs of memory?

There are several posts on this topic already. One of which is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=533148
basically:
60Gb is never really 60GB, it formats to around 55GB (there's 5 GB gone already)
Lots of programs that come with OSX are massive, and if you don't use them, you may as well uninstall. Examples: Garageband, iDVD. (It is not the programs themselves that are massive but garagebands huge instrument library and iDVD's themes.) ~ 4-5GB
Also, OSX comes with printer drivers for huge numbers of printers, a lot of which you probably won't use. ~ 1GB
OSX comes with lots of different languages installed, if English is your only language you may as well remove them. ~1GB
Best way to remove: Fresh install of OSX. Click customize when reinstalling and you can select what to install.
You can of course search around your Hard Drive for printer drivers/garageband iDVD etc. (Most of the big stuff is in Users->Library or just Macintosh HD->Library). You can remove languages with a program called monolingual. But in my opinion it is easier to reinstall - but don't forget to backup first.

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rleblanc49 wrote:
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