New Macbook Memory...

My new macbook came with the 120gb of memory. I now only have 88gb left and have barely installed anything, and I found out i really only had 111gb to use in the first place anyway. Now i know that some of it is used right from the start for various things, but that much of it??

you only had 111GB because of the way harddrives are measured (powers of 10) and the way computers measure data (powers of 2). 120GB is 120,000,000,000 bytes and since 1 GB = 1024 MB and 1 MB = 1024 KB, etc.. there is some difference.
Check out this google calc: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=120%2C000%2C000%2C000bytes+toGB&btnG=Search
Also, memory is not the same as disk space. You had 120GB of disk space but only 2 or 4 GB of memory. (Memory is data stored electronically and is stored only when the computer is on. Harddrives store data magenetically and keep this data when the computer is off (non-volatile vs. volatile storage)

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