Harddrive Capacity Question

Someone else brought this up, and it made me investigate my harddrive further.
I bought an 80 gig harddrive (though it's actual capacity is listed as 74.21 gigs ... I don't know enough to know if this is normal. I've been assuming it is).
I'm using up 34 gigs in my house folder and 3.19 in my applications folder. There's nothing on my desktop. So that means I'm using up 37.19 gigs of memory. But I only have 23.91 gigs available. That's only 61.1 gigs that are accounted for. Where are the other 13 gigs? Is OSX really this big? Am I missing something here?

One thing I always suggest when getting a new Mac is to wipe the hard drive clean and reinstall from the System disc. That way you can customize your installation and not install Microsoft Office Text drive, plus remove Garageband, iDVD, and their files if you don't use it.
Another thing to look into is a program called "delocalizer." It removes foreign languages from your Mac (assuming you only work in English and have no need for languages.) It strips foreign languages from all your apps. One can save 1-3GB just removing foreign languages.

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