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Last week I bought MBP 13". Yesterday I replace main disk with Intel G3 SSD 120GB. I made recovery USB with "Recovery disk assistant". When I install Lion 10.7.1 on SSD my free space dropped from 120GB to 104.xxGB. Is this normal? Under System Information tab Storage is 15.2GB marked as "Other".

Fresh install should used between 4-7GB of free space!? There is no iLife or iWork or other app installed on my system.
 
Yes, it is normal. Unformatted size of the disk is 120 GBs but after formatting to HFS+, you will lose some memory (depends on the actual size of disk). And no need to mention Lion takes around 7 GBs.
 
Yes, it is normal. Unformatted size of the disk is 120 GBs but after formatting to HFS+, you will lose some memory (depends on the actual size of disk). And no need to mention Lion takes around 7 GBs.

Yep, looked and space used just after I clean installed lion at it was in the 7gig range
 
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