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Sorry if this is previously answer question.
I'm a new OS X owner that come with a new i Book.
i notice that after I do the Tiger upgrade I seem to only have half of the 30gb drive for myself.
Is this normal? Why are they running out so fast?s
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a 30GB drive has about 27GB of usable space on it. then subtract size of the factory install and you could have only half of the original 30GB available to you.
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On a similar note, when getting a new iBook, do you recommend doing a fresh install of Tiger over the factory install? Back in my PC days, you had to do a clean install of Windows when you got a new computer if you didn't want all the pre-installed junk on there. Is it the same case here?
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Yes, doing a fresh install for Mac OS X will reduce the amount of space it takes up. I did a custom install on my iBook, and I had A LOT more space for use on the iBook HD.
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Same thing here, irockdabari. I only had about 27gb on my new 40gb iBook drive, and I did a fresh install with all of the apps I want and ended up having 35gb left!
I left out all of the localization and font stuff, as well as a lot of the extra printer drivers that I'd never need.
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