Hi everyone,
I just bought a Macbook 2.0Ghz (switching over from PC to a MAC for the first time...kind of overwhelming!!). The first thing I noticed is that although my laptop was supposed to come with 80GB, there was only 56GB free when I first opened it. Is that...normal?! Are there just an insane number of programs installed on my computer that I'm not aware of? or does OS X just take up that much room?
...I was also wondering if someone has any good links to tips or basics for mac users. I've really never used one before, so this is all kind of crazy. I was so used to a PC and I feel like I'm learning how to use a computer from scratch. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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Note that both a filesystem and the way that sizes are calculated conspire against your disk size. The filesystem takes up part of the disk space without showing it to you, and 80GB is really more like 74.5GB as far as software is concerned in the first place, so you're seeing close to 18GB or so of used space on your drive. Some of that is also system services stuff (like the Spotlight indexing files and so on), all kinds of things. I don't think it's completely out of place.
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As for the tips, read the sticky threads right here. They will provide a good start and links to more. Also Apple's site has a "Switch" series of lessons/pages intended for Switchers, you might start there as well. -
Totally normal....after I deleted the trial off ms office I had about 94GBs from my 120GB hard drive left. Formatted max capacity was 111.45GB
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sales types often mark disk space by the thousands, so if you divide the space in megabytes by 1000, you'll probably get 120GB. In reality, you divide by 1024, so you get a smaller number.
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This entry at Wikipedia should help explain the whole decimal versus binary issue and why your HDD is smaller than you expected.
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But, I guess the original poster is more concerned about space taken by OS X and the installed software than the ~6G(i?)B of difference. -
Thanks for your replies re:hard drive everyone! ..and wooky, I had no idea about Apple's 'switch' lessons, so thanks for that too!
Just another question:
...does everyone here just use VLC to play their .wmv and .avi videos? ...or is there a better program to use? The guy at the apple store suggested Flip4Mac, but ....um, that's not free. -
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/flip4macwmvstudiopro.html
Download the trial version. It is the player, plus a trial for their pay stuff. It should play all wmv though without any nagging or anything.
New User to Mac..
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by jbohav, Mar 28, 2007.