Macbook 60 gig question and other newbie ones

i baught the macbook with 60 gig. but when i opened it it said it has 55.60 ram and that 35.00 was used. Whats up with that?

And sometimes I lag even when I was typing this. Is there an explanation for that? I assumed that I wouldn't lag much but that appears different now.

Lastly, in windows theres ctr alt delete to see cpu memory usage and all tasks currently being used. in mac osx is there such thing?

Thanks for your help guys!

 

60gb is the advertised HD space. 55.6gb is the actual. 35gb is what is left after the OS and apps are installed.

I'm not sure about your lag.

But to check the activity, go to your startup disk --> Applications --> Utilities --> Activity Monitor

 

Jeez... so the preinstalled stuff took up 20 gigs? That's ridiculous!

 

I think it was like 17gb from what I can remember. I used third party software to delete some languages and got back 3gb. You can also delete some printer drivers if you don't need them.

 

Help me try my theory. Open the Activity Monitor, click on the Memory Tab and check how much virtual memory is allocated.

 

I never realized it took so much space

 

Well, Tiger itself takes up a fair bit more room than XP (Vista will change this) and you have to remember that you are getting the full iLife 06 suite preinstalled also. Plus MS Office 2004 Trial is on there and I believe an iWork 06 trial as well. So it already has a bunch of software that you would likely install on a Windows box. If you don't need most of iLife I am sure you can take a few of the programs off. However, Apple really should not even offer 60GB drives these days. They are too small anymore. In a notebook the bottom option should be 80GB.

 

Yeah, don't forget that OS X also contains code for two different architectures as well, that explains why PowerPC applications is typically smaller than the Intel version in filesize, the Intel version (more accurately Universal) also contains code for both architectures as well.

When PowerPC is eventually faded out, we should start seeing 'normal' sizes.

 

Hey guys, can you post how much virtual memory is OS X using, specially after a long run? I've seen lots of space allocated.

As for the apps, what really makes OS X apps "fat" is more the fact that they are mostly self-contained, i.e., they contain the libraries needed - which is what allows for easy uninstalling and installing. A universal app may be indeed almost double-sized compared to a PowerPC's, but in modern day software what really weighs is data. Graphics, templates, sounds and so on.