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GadgetGeek407

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Mar 26, 2009
994
61
florida
80gb system says 74.1gb, after full restore, 56gb available so the OS took 24gb when it said at restore install it was like 12.5 or something...im lost where did all this space go?


also software update it updated tons of stuff but every time I would restart it after install and ran again it kept finding new stuff every time like 4 times around...isn't it suppose to update every software on the comp all at once?

btw how people talk about rev A refurb is better....do any of these updates such as the firmware update and stuff put the same stuff on here that makes this the same as far as better like the rev A refurb?

can someone also tell me how to tell what week and all this was built based on how to read the serial I remember reading that somewhere here
 

Eidorian

macrumors Penryn
Mar 23, 2005
29,190
386
Indianapolis
Give Disk Inventory X a try if you feel you must hunt down your space usage.

Are you sure you needed all those languages and printer drivers as well? They take up a lot of space. The same goes for iLife.
 

mcpryon2

macrumors 6502a
Dec 12, 2008
505
88
I'm not really sure, I couldn't really tell from your post, but when you get an 80GB hard drive, you don't actually have 80GB of space. Were you unaware of this? That's why it says you start off with 74GB.
 

GadgetGeek407

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Mar 26, 2009
994
61
florida
I'm not really sure, I couldn't really tell from your post, but when you get an 80GB hard drive, you don't actually have 80GB of space. Were you unaware of this? That's why it says you start off with 74GB.

im aware but wondering how it went from 74 to 56 when its just the OS discs lol with ilife but i guess its all that big lol
 
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