14 inch M1 MBP supposed to have 512GB storage, only has 494GB.

[tjktony]

New 14 inch M1 MBP is supposed to have 512GB storage, only has 494GB full capacity. Is this normal or did I get short changed? What does yours have?

 

[Juicy Box]

New 14 inch M1 MBP is supposed to have 512GB storage, only has 494GB full capacity. Is this normal or did I get short changed? What does yours have?

When formatting, you can lose a little bit of space.

This is normal.

 

[MBAir2010]

My 256 GB MacBook M1 had around 16GB of "*crap"
before I installed photos of my cat when I first started using the MacBook.
this is normal, and you might gain some GB after restarting as well.

*This is a harmless poetic expression referring to Monterey OS

 

[canuckRus]

New 14 inch M1 MBP is supposed to have 512GB storage, only has 494GB full capacity. Is this normal or did I get short changed? What does yours have

About normal for preinstallation setup of OS.

 

[curnalpanic]

New 14 inch M1 MBP is supposed to have 512GB storage, only has 494GB full capacity. Is this normal or did I get short changed? What does yours have?

994.66 GB here (1 TB total size).

The rest is claimed by the recovery partition.

 

[theluggage]

New 14 inch M1 MBP is supposed to have 512GB storage, only has 494GB full capacity. Is this normal or did I get short changed? What does yours have?

As others have said, formatting always reduces the available space a bit, but there's also a hidden "recovery partition" taking up about 5.4GB, plus SSDs need a minimum amount of free blocks to work properly. On my 1TB machine the actual available disc space is 994.7 MB, so you're in the right ball park.

Here you go: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201402

Yeah, in a perfect world, 512GB in the advert would mean 512GB after tax, but that's never been the case in the history of personal computers, Apple or otherwise...