Out of the box 15" Macbook Pro (June 2009) - How much Hard drive taken?

Hello!
I just bought the 15" Macbook Pro (June 2009) 2.53GHz w/ 8GB-Ram upgrade and notice when I look at my system profile I see that my 320 GB hard drive already has around 20 GB taken up!
Is this normal? Is there a feature that lets me see where/what those 20 GB are?
I'm new to Mac so any help would be greatly appreciated - Thanks!!

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
There are some utilities that will tell you what is taking up your hard drive space:
http://www.derlien.com/
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/
http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/
I believe the first one--Disk Inventory X--is still free, and there is a small charge for the others.
Happy computing!

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