Deleting Text Edit

Why even bother? TextEdit is a few megabytes out of hundreds of gigabytes on your machine.

 

The space gain is negligible
Not worth it at all IMO

 

I'd leave it in place. You never know what tomorrow might bring.

At some point you may want to use it.

As others have accurately reported, it's comprised of so little code it takes up hardly any space at all.

 

Text Edit comes in VERY handy at times. especially when Word fail to load and you really need to type something up. Dont throw it away. it is only 1.7MB out of your 160,000 MB (160GB) Hard Drive.

 

textedit is actually pretty powerful too.

 

No need to exercise so much control over your applications. TextEdit isn't going to hurt anything while it is on your system and it will be nice to have as a backup. It is also nice to have, relative to Office, for having a fast-loading painless means of creating a text document. Office is so slow...

Also, it is a good idea to get in the habit of leaving core Apple applications where they are. Don't move them and don't delete them. It probably won't ever matter with TextEdit (and likely less so with, say, Chess), but shuffling around some Apple items can lead to confusion and problems during upgrades down the road.