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How much Disk Space did you get back?
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because SL now reports in base 10 as opposed to base 2
so that 500 gig hdd will now show up in SL as 500 gig, not the 465 or wherebouts it did in leopard
we really just gained around 6 gigabytes total
How much hard drive space did you gain after your Snow Leopard install?
So i just got finished installing Snow Leopard. Everything when smoothly, took a little over an hour which I was fine with but the best part of it all was how much hard drive space I gained!
I gained 29GB after the install finished! I was speaking to a employee at the apple store who said an associate of his gained about 20GB so I was hopefull but 29GB was great specially since I was running low.
What about you guys? How much did you gain?
So i just got finished installing Snow Leopard. Everything when smoothly, took a little over an hour which I was fine with but the best part of it all was how much hard drive space I gained!
I gained 29GB after the install finished! I was speaking to a employee at the apple store who said an associate of his gained about 20GB so I was hopefull but 29GB was great specially since I was running low.
What about you guys? How much did you gain?
how much Gb's did snow leopard gave you back?
i had 122 gb free and i installed snow leopard and now i have 140 gb thats alot it gave me like 18 gb instead of the 7 apple promise
i had 122 gb free and i installed snow leopard and now i have 140 gb thats alot it gave me like 18 gb instead of the 7 apple promise
Not sure if you guys have read this, but some of the space you thought you gained you didn't actually gain (in SL 1GB = 1000MB and not 1024MB):
http://www.macworld.com/article/142471/2009/08/snow_leopard_math.html
Not really a big difference, but it's something
http://www.macworld.com/article/142471/2009/08/snow_leopard_math.html
Not really a big difference, but it's something
Prior to SL, I had 44GiB or ~47GB. After install, I now have 55GB, so I saved ~ 8GB. (Unibody 13.3")
It may be. However, what many are trying to explain to those of you with excessive additional "free space" is there's a reason for it besides the fact that Snow Leopard is leaner.
1. Snow Leopard does not include 4GB+ of printer drivers pre-installed like Leopard.
2. Snow Leopard, when upgrading from 10.5 Leopard, will remove all the saved software updates stored on your computer.
Using the Apple "new math", I went from 196GB free to 206GB free, so freed up 10GB in terms of smaller footprint and removal of all incremental 10.5 updates.
I agree thoroughly, but for possibly being picky about the definition of leaner. However, what people like kryptonianjorel have been trying to assert is that any apparent saving of more than 7gb is due to a naive misunderstanding of how the transition from 1024-per-kilo to 1000-per-kilo affects different numbers.
It's clearly true that if you install Snow Leopard onto your Mac then you will continue to get the same amount of subjective functionality while potentially reclaiming substantially more than 7gb. More than 50% more in my case. I installed 10.5.0 originally, so no doubt removal of saved software updates accounts for my particular experience.
Reading these posts is killing me. I'm all out of space here, and most of it is from Applications. I'm going to throttle the postman next time I see him
This is wrong, my SSD shows as 120.99 and it's a 128GB drive.
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