How much HDD space should a typical Leopard install take

My Mini is a week old so not much extra stuff on it yet. The drive is the 120GB size and disc utility says 52 GB is available. Does this sound right. When I look at each folder on the drive the biggest is Users at 16GB while Apps, Lib and Sys are around 5GB.
I did install then remove Parallels for some problems that app gave me. Thanks

15-20 Gig would be fairly typical by the time the running system has generated virtual memory files, a sleep file, tmp files, and assorted cache files.
It is possible that Parallels has left behind a container file of considerable size.

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