Macbook Disk Image

I have what I hope will be a simple question. I need to take my MacBook in to the Apple Store to be looked at, and in preparation for doing so, used DiskUtility to make an image of my MacBook's hard drive, which I'm storing on the hard drive of another computer. The total size of the newly created disk image is 62.66 GB while the Finder reports my hard drive is being used to about 74.26 GB. Could this discrepancy be due to formatting, or does it sound like the disk image isn't complete. Hope this makes since, and I'll be happy to clarify if need. Thanks so much!
MacBook C2D 2.0Ghz Black Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Disk images are generally compressed, so that's probably why you're seeing the discrepancy.

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