160gb hard drive showing up as 111gb?

[squashpro]

Same here and I just got mine last week~

kage207 - what version of leopard came installed on your computer? chscaq says he/she had mac os x 10.5.1 out-of-box; the same for you or did your's come with 10.5.2? if it came with the latter, it would seem that I may be getting cheated off 8 GBs of my hard drive so please, let me know.

thank you chscaq for clarifying!

 

[kage207]

Um, I don't remember exactly what version I did the system updates right away. I think I had 10.5.2 but thinking about how much space I had was 131.9 I think. Not positive.

 

[squashpro]

Um, I don't remember exactly what version I did the system updates right away. I think I had 10.5.2 but thinking about how much space I had was 131.9 I think. Not positive.

kage207 --

I'm not understanding. first you said your numbers were 160 Gb drive/formatted capacity 149 Gb/138 Gb available when you first turned on your computer. then you say you believe you started with 10.5.2 and started with 131.9 GBs available.

do you mean to say that you started with leopard 10.5.2 and after updates ended up with 131.9 GBs of space? OR do you mean to say that your first assessment was incorrect and that you started with leopard 10.5.2 and numbers closer to mine (160GBs/149GB formatted/130GB available)? you can check on your operating system by clicking on the apple in the upper left hand corner - about this mac - and your version # should be listed right there.

let me know, thanks!

 

[alphaod]

kage207 - what version of leopard came installed on your computer? chscaq says he/she had mac os x 10.5.1 out-of-box; the same for you or did your's come with 10.5.2? if it came with the latter, it would seem that I may be getting cheated off 8 GBs of my hard drive so please, let me know.

thank you chscaq for clarifying!

I don't think anyone got cheated. Yes 10.5.2 is a bigger than 10.5.1, but not by 8GB.

 

[squashpro]

I don't think anyone got cheated. Yes 10.5.2 is a bigger than 10.5.1, but not by 8GB.

alphaod -- can you think of what accounts for the difference in starting available GBs? if 10.5.2 is bigger than 10.5.1 but not by 8 GBs, what accounts for the rest of the difference? wouldn't this mean that I am potentially getting cheated (based on the reasoning you provide)?

further, I know of people with leopard 10.5.4 whose libraries and system take up between 11GB-16 GB ... a variation, true, but both take up less space than 10.5.2 on my system.

I'm not claiming to be a computer expert, but something still seems fishy.

 

[alphaod]

alphaod -- can you think of what accounts for the difference in starting available GBs? if 10.5.2 is bigger than 10.5.1 but not by 8 GBs, what accounts for the rest of the difference? wouldn't this mean that I am potentially getting cheated (based on the reasoning you provide)?

Not much, but it's possible a hibernation file or two could have robbed space; possibly temp files? Forgotten downloads…

It's fishy, but I wouldn't define it as being cheated. How would this even benefit Apple to piss off users?