Why does my MacBook have so little free space?

Received my MacBook yesterday, and I was wondering if anyone could shed some light as to why there is so much room already taken up on the hard drive. I'm new to Macs, so does the OS and all take up that much space? When I booted it up it had about 73 GB available (I have the 80 GB model), and about 15-20 GB was already taken up. Even after erasing all of the trial version software it comes with, I still have a lot less free space than I would like. Any insights would be much appreciated.
MacBook Pro 1.83GHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

A full install of OS X will require about 6 GBs of space. In addition to that you have the iLife apps installed. If you also ordered iWork, then that's installed as well. On an 80 GB hard drive you will have about 73 GBs of actual total usable space. At least another 7-8 GBs will account for OS X and iLife apps leaving about 65 GBs free. Deduct about 1 GB for trial software and you're down to around 63-64 GBs. If you select the Macintosh HD icon and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window you should see displayed the amount of free space currently available.

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