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How much Disk Space did you get back?

About 16GB. Pretty pleasing. YES I know that is partly because of the new counting, but you can't tell me I didn't get more than 6 back. The new counting will make a difference, but not more than DOUBLE it.
 
I got a little over 13GB total on a revB SSD Macbook Air. Very pleased. SL has been awesome for this little machine.
 
Scorch07 said:
About 16GB. Pretty pleasing. YES I know that is partly because of the new counting, but you can't tell me I didn't get more than 6 back. The new counting will make a difference, but not more than DOUBLE it.
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Why not? The bigger the drive, the more you'll get back. I have a 1 Terabyte drive that shows 931.xx GB capacity. Once I install SL, I'll get a lot of space back (but not really).
 
According to the SL measurement, I gained about 12GB in space. However, the iStat widget still measure space using the other GB/GiB (not sure which is which) method, and the 12GB of saved space actually equates to about 2GB. Not complaining about saving space, but it is nothing like some people think it is.
 
21gb!!!! - roughly

I did a clean install and have put all my data back on. Very Nice surprise must say. especially when i'm only rollin with a 320gb HD :p
 
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Apple Kicks HDD Marketing Debate Into High Gear

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/29/1321253/Apple-Kicks-HDD-Marketing-Debate-Into-High-Gear

"With the release of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Apple has updated a support document describing how their new operating system reports capacities of hard drives and other media. It has sided with hard drive makers, who for years have advertised capacities as '1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes' instead of the traditional computer science definition, and in so doing has kicked the debate between marketing and computer science into high gear. Binary prefixes for binary units (e.g. GiB for 'gibibyte') have been promoted by the International Electrotechnical Commission and endorsed by IEEE and other standards organizations, but to date there's been limited acceptance (though manufacturers have wholeheartedly accepted the 'new' definitions for GB and TB). Is Apple's move the first major step in forcing computer science to adopt the more awkward binary prefixes, breaking decades of accepted (if technically inaccurate) usage of SI prefixes?"
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Disk space back

On my MBP new 15 I got 27gigs and on my first gen (al) imac I got a amazing 52 GIGS!!! I had to change pants after
 
Petoz said:
According to the SL measurement, I gained about 12GB in space. However, the iStat widget still measure space using the other GB/GiB (not sure which is which) method, and the 12GB of saved space actually equates to about 2GB. Not complaining about saving space, but it is nothing like some people think it is.
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Im no mathematician, but I don't see how these 2 different counting methods account for a 10gb difference?? 12gb to 2gb?

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Anyway, all I know is, I got a 23gb gain, apparently! I'll let you brainiacs work out what that really amounts to in binary, or whatever language it is that you guys are talking :p
 
Snow Leopard freed up 36gb worth of space for me...

I know it seems unbelievable, but after installed SL on my 1 week old 13" MBP I had 36gb more space than before. WOW!

How much space did SL free up for you?!
 
A search might be handy.. But, Snow Leopard changes the way that data is counted to the same way that the hard drive manufacturers count it. Previously 1GB = 1024MB, now Snow Leopard reads it as 1GB = 1000MB, that is where the disk space comes from.
 
my install freed 8 gigs. can i get a douple check on that figure? seems huge. open Console and click Installer.log under /private/var/log in the sidebar and search for "reaper". the true space gained in base 2 should be in the log.
 
richthomas said:
my install freed 8 gigs. can i get a douple check on that figure? seems huge. open Console and click Installer.log under /private/var/log in the sidebar and search for "reaper". the true space gained in base 2 should be in the log.
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Damn, even in base 2 it was 18gb! Anyways, feel free to close this thread - I'm posting in the newer one.
 
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