How much free space out of Box 128GB?

stark4 said:

Im trying to decide between128GB and 256GB... How much free space out of box for 128GB version. Can anyone tell me if you remember?

Thanks

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I believe it's ~120GB? Not completely sure... Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

The general rule of thumb is 7% of the listed disk space capacity will be used.

So for 128gb, 7% will be used for the OS & other things leaving about 120gb free.

3dflyboy1 said:

I believe it's ~120GB? Not completely sure... Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

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I have this model and your quote of 120gb is spot on.

macbookpro45 said:

The general rule of thumb is 7% of the listed disk space capacity will be used.

So for 128gb, 7% will be used for the OS & other things leaving about 120gb free.

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I'm not quite sure this makes sense? If I get one with a 128GB SSD and what you say is true then roughly 9GB will be in use leaving 119GB free (sounds about right from reports from others). However if I get a 256GB SSD then you're saying Apple will have added an additional 9GB of programs and data to the SSD which isn't present on the 128GB SSD? I don't think that would be the case at all. I would have thought that Apple would have pre-installed the exact same programs and data files regardless of which model I purchase.

Alec

I don't know what all these people talk about.

128 GB SSD is not actually 128 GB, but about 120 GB of space.

And there is a couple of GB's that Mac OS X is taking, so wtf?

Check this thread:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1207431/

Think we came to the conclusion it was about 106