Operating System Size

Hi,
I have a 48 hour old Macbook with the 80gb hard drive. I have loaded nothing on it and it shows 57gb of available space. Can this be right? the OS and misceallaneous other programs take up 23 gb? I went as far as to try a new install from the discs and still, the same amount of space is used.
Thanks in advance for your response(s).
Tracy

An 80GB HD (as shown on the package or store front) actually has 80,000,000,000 bytes. This will always translate to 74.41 GB on the computer (it is using a binary addressing system where 1KB=1024bytes; 1MB=1024KB; 1GB=1024MB)
In the full install, a lot of space (about 7GB or so) is taken up by templates for iDVD and samples for GarageBand. If you won't use those programs, them you can trash them from the HD/Library folder.
The OS with all printer drivers and languages installed will be about 4GB. If you don't need these extras, the easiest way is to Erase&Install following the Custom install option and deselecting extras you don't need.

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