(SR MBP) Default free HDD space?

Ok, I recently received my Santa Rosa 2.2Ghz Macbook Pro and have been working my way around OS X Tiger and today when I'm getting ready to install Boot Camp, it shows I'm already using up ~25GB of disk space?! All I remember putting on it is a couple applications and a 2GB video as well as installing all the OS updates. So does that mean OS X takes up over 20GB of HDD space? I was under the impression Macs didn't contain too much bloatware but there's no possible way a *nix install should take up over 5GB let alone 20GB.

 

this sounds scary~~~

I am waiting for my MBP (estimated to arrive on July 4th) and i am planning to tripple boot the machine ( OS X / XP / Debian ). If OS X takes 20GB by itself, that's quit a lot ...

 

Yeah, I was originally thinking of dual-booting linux and windows on a notebook until I got a Mac thinking OS X could be a decent linux substitute but how can it take up so much space?? I mean, I see some free trials on here (Office, Filemaker) but there can't possibly be 15GB of bloatware..

Come on, where are all the Mac Gurus on these forums??

 

It's the iLife Suite. GarageBand ships with more than 2000 pre-installed loops. I use garageband but I use it to create ring tones for my phone and make my own music. You don't need all those loops. You can drop the loops in the trash however the best way to start off fresh with your new Mac and have as much HDD space as needed is to just reformat and install and choose what you want to have installed. You can just choose to have iPhoto, iDVD and iMovie and leave Garageband out. The program itself takes up more than 2GB of space without the loops.
OS X doesn't take up that much space.

 

Ahhh, thank you for that we explained answer, hldan. I suppose I will re-install to a fresh install. I was just wondering whether it would install all the bloatware automatically but I guess not.

 

I will soon become a macbook pro owner and plan to either run bootcamp or parallels to boot windows. Do you know of any PROBLEMS dual booting and parallels lead into later on the hardware?

 

Dual boot is Apple's solution and they have actually done a very good job on bootcamp given it's beta software. Bootcamp is the best solution if you want to play hi-res 3D games without performance hits. Parallels is not for that. It's best suited for the occasional piece of Windows software that you need to run that's not on the Mac. Parallels is very fast, almost indistinguishable from bootcamp but it's 3D acceleration doesn't hold a candle to bootcamp as well as peripheral compatibility.
In regards to reformat and install, when you get to the install OS X screen it gives you a customization button to add or remove what you want installed. So if you want to just install the bare minimum of OS X and add say the iLife package later you can. Or you can just install iPhoto if that's all you think you will use.
There's not really much bloatware in the OS X package. Outside of Garageband if OS X didn't come with iLife you would be downloading replacements for it anyway.

 

5000 loops? That must be several GBs by itself, and then 2GB just for the program? No wonder you lost 20GB.

 

Mine was using about 25 gigs or so when i got it too...I was hoping i wouldnt have to do a reinstall though...but I will be dual booting windows in a month or two. Its somewhat disappointing that they didn't let me install when i first got it.

 

On the 120gb drive you get 111.5gb because of the formatting, then mac os x, ilife suite and ms office and iwork trials. You should have about 95GB.