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Just wondering, how much storage space does the base installation of OSX take up?

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Read the first questions thread thingie that is stickied at the top of the page in this category.

There is some indescrepency, but it should be no more than 4 GB if you add the coding tools like Xcode and whatnot. Also, possibly removing some of the free apps that come with your install, might clear it up just a bit.
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2.0GB, 3.5GB if you install all the developer tools. I'm sure it's all in the documentation that comes with OSX when you buy it
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Well, i guessed to high. But then again there was THPS included at 1.1 Gb :P.
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ah, many thanks

just wondering what I would be left with as "storage" space

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I use 1 GB for music, 5 GB for iPhoto and the rest is documents and random crud i have lying around. It leaves me with 15 GB out of the 30 GB with a swap of 4 GB.
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