How much free disk space is in a new Macbook Air?

[climater]

Hi,

I plan to purchase a new Macbook Air and would hesitate to pay $200 more to double the SSD from 128GB to 256. I wonder how much free disk space available apart from what OS X has taken in a new machine. I'm a researcher who does quite a bit of data crunching. But I can live with a 1TB USB3.0 portable HDD. Thanks.

 

[Saberon]

98ish-100GB free

 

[Suraj R.]

My Macintosh HD drive appears to be a 120.47 GB drive. With the OS and stock apps and everything it should be around 105 - 110 GB.

Don't upgrade the SSD, what you should do is get a 64 or 128 GB MicroSD card and keep it permanently in the SD card slot of the Air.

One of these will make this a lot easier:
http://theniftyminidrive.com

 

[jadam]

My Macintosh HD drive appears to be a 120.47 GB drive. With the OS and stock apps and everything it should be around 105 - 110 GB.

Don't upgrade the SSD, what you should do is get a 64 or 128 GB MicroSD card and keep it permanently in the SD card slot of the Air.

One of these will make this a lot easier:
http://theniftyminidrive.com

You're not going to run a bootcamp install from your SD card so that's bad advice for anyone who needs to run bootcamp.

 

[Suraj R.]

You're not going to run a bootcamp install from your SD card so that's bad advice for anyone who needs to run bootcamp.

I suppose, yeah, but I'm going to use it for storing media (games, movies). Didn't know what the OP was asking for specifically sorry

 

[climater]

I suppose, yeah, but I'm going to use it for storing media (games, movies). Didn't know what the OP was asking for specifically sorry

Thanks, Suraj. I don't think I will have the need for bootcamp since chances are rare that I will need to run Windows programs. I will double the RAM to 8GB. With that I should be able to run Windows in VM if absolutely necessary.

 

[bluedoggiant]

My Macintosh HD drive appears to be a 120.47 GB drive. With the OS and stock apps and everything it should be around 105 - 110 GB.

Don't upgrade the SSD, what you should do is get a 64 or 128 GB MicroSD card and keep it permanently in the SD card slot of the Air.

One of these will make this a lot easier:
http://theniftyminidrive.com

I am browsing their website and I'm having trouble figuring out what this is exactly. I want to get one for the Retina MacBook Pro I am purchasing. How much space does it have? Is it really just an adapter for an SD card? Thanks.

 

[mynameis321]

You're not going to run a bootcamp install from your SD card so that's bad advice for anyone who needs to run bootcamp.

How much space would Bootcamp take up, with just Microsoft Office installed?

 

[Dekard]

between 30-45GB.