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How much space do you have left on your MBA?
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On my Pro I've used 30GB and I have everything that is pre-installed plus Adobe Production Suite and the complete Office. Plus some other smaller programs. I think the computer comes with around 20GB of stuff.
I'd love to buy an Air, my 13" Pro seems so fat since I saw an Air, even though it's slim and tiny next to the monstrous 3" thick Panasonic Toughbook I fight with at work.
Trouble is, I've used up 715Gb, including 160Gb of lossless music, and 500Gb of video, growing all the time as I rip my DVDs. I think when I've finished, and no longer need an optical drive, I'll get an Air and a NAS, or maybe a Mini under the TV. Too many options, too much expense...
Trouble is, I've used up 715Gb, including 160Gb of lossless music, and 500Gb of video, growing all the time as I rip my DVDs. I think when I've finished, and no longer need an optical drive, I'll get an Air and a NAS, or maybe a Mini under the TV. Too many options, too much expense...
75 gigs on a 120 gig SSD at this moment. No music, no movies. What's available fluctuates heavily mostly depending on my VM's. VPN to my home server gives me access to everything I need on the go 
Is that an ssd? The general consensus seems to be ssd's run more efficiently and show less wear if you leave a bit of free space. 5-10% seems to be the suggested amount.
I've 34gb free on my 256 at the moment, but it usually fluctuates between 20 and 30, and I always leave at least 15gb free.
I do all the grunty, storage heavy things like torrenting on my old mbp's 1tb hdd. Looking forward to a time when you can get reasonably priced 512gb+ ssd's. Please no-one link me to a 512gb ssd on NewEgg, there's nothing there that meets my definition of reasonably priced
154.16GB out of 256GB.
Reason is I have Windows 7 HP 64 installed...
a crap ton of apps & 8GB's of music. I'm new to OSX so i gotta be prepared!
Reason is I have Windows 7 HP 64 installed...
a crap ton of apps & 8GB's of music. I'm new to OSX so i gotta be prepared!
20gb free on 128. Constantly having to transfer stuff to my media pc. I wouldn't have to manage as much with a 256gb.
I don't even remember making this topic
Anyway I wonder how soon will we get an affordable 500 GB SSD.
Anyway I wonder how soon will we get an affordable 500 GB SSD.
I don't even remember making this topic
Well then you won't mind if I give a MBAlu+SSD figure.
I went SSD some two years ago, bought a 80 Gig Intel SSD, paid myself sick.
No going back to running system on a 2,5" HDD. The real life speed kick (even a oldtech) SSD gave was generous - to say the least.
Status: less than two gigs free.
15 gigs for parallels partitions
9 gigs of music
7 gigs of iPhone related stuff (iPhoto library + backups)
...
I should prune my Library/printers folder as I can't see myself needing 1,4 gigs of Epson drivers...
Thenagain, I'm soon replacing this machine with a MBA, so maybe I shouldn't waste time on trifling issues.
Pekka
12gb left in my 40gb mac partition and
2gb left on my 20gb windows partition.
I only have 2 games in the windows partition, around 1-2gb each. No clue where the 16gb went!
edit: deleted 3 movies from my mac partition and got 5gb back, those damn High-Def movies take so much space...
2gb left on my 20gb windows partition.
I only have 2 games in the windows partition, around 1-2gb each. No clue where the 16gb went!
edit: deleted 3 movies from my mac partition and got 5gb back, those damn High-Def movies take so much space...
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...And I just did! 104Gb free on my 11" 128Gb, it'll drop to 80Gb or so once iTunes has finished downloading my previous music purchases.