MacBook Pro Startup Disk Full

Hi,
I recently bought a new MacBook Pro Retina after nearly running out of space on my old MacBook, I transferred all my stuff over but I seem to have exactly the same amount off space left on my MBP as I did on my old one even though the Pro has more storage?
It's got 8GB of memory compared to 2GB on my old one, although it had 250GB storage, is that the same as 250GB Flash storage on my MBP?!
I'm a little confused (as you can probably tell!)
My old MacBook: http://support.apple.com/kb/SP583

250 is 250 is 250. You didn't get a larger hard drive. You just got more ram.

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