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I read on Apple's website that Snow Leopard will be 6GB lighter than current Leopard. Given that my fresh Leopard installation is only 6GB (I uncheck unnecessary printer drivers and languages during setup) I wonder what will it become after upgrade to Snow? Or installing from scratch would be the only option to get 6GB lighter setup? Any ideas?
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That's 6 GB versus the standard install. You will probably see some space savings, but not as much.
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They basically saved most of it by not including printer drivers.
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I thought the savings were mostly because all the PPC code was removed.
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Originally Posted by ibook_steve 
I thought the savings were mostly because all the PPC code was removed.
Steve
Partly because of that. I don't think there was anything like 6 GB of PPC code in the core install of Leopard.
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And actual code is the smallest part of the FS footprint anyway. Resources (icons, pics, documentation, audio, video) is much more.
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The biggest source of savings is from no longer installing every printer driver by default. Actually, the size of the core OS has grown slightly with Snow Leopard.
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Umm, wasn't there mention of the system files being compressed?
Removing PPC code saves almost nothing, because the code makes up a literally trivial amount of an app's size.
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