How Much HD Space is Taken for OS and Pre-Installed Software?

[D-Man18360]

In general, how much hard-drive space is taken on an iMac for the OS and other pre-installed software? For example, for the 250GB drives, how much is actually useable?

 

[NRose8989]

In general, how much hard-drive space is taken on an iMac for the OS and other pre-installed software? For example, for the 250GB drives, how much is actually useable?

A OS install w/ software is about 11GB +- 5GB depending if you install printer drivers, languages, xcode etc.

 

[TEG]

A 250GB drive is actually 232GiB, then 6GB-16GB for the total space for OS X.

So it will leave you with about 216GB.

TEG

 

[D-Man18360]

Thanks for the information - it's exactly what I needed to know.