Initial SSD space

I read somewhere else today that you'll have around 50gb to play with.

can you post URL where you read it? Want to be sure. Am getting the entry level Macbook Air this week.

Formatted capacity will be 60.5 GB, and you will use about 11.5 GB for OSX and iLife etc..

Craig Brady wrote:
Formatted capacity will be 60.5 GB, and you will use about 11.5 GB for OSX and iLife etc..

Thanks! I will be re-formatting the drive and re-installing the OS and iLife '11.

I have the 11.6" MBA with 128G storage. I installed a few small benchmark apps and one 6GB one (Steam, Portal, and Team Fortress).

So far I've used up 38.31GB. Since the 128GB formatted is 120.85GB, I have 82.54GB left. If this was a 64GB storage, it's likely 60GB formatted, which, in my case, would leave about 22GB free. Glad I got the 128GB model.

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I used Monolingual to get rid of a bunch of languages I do not plan on using, and that saved me an additional 1.6 GB of storage.

Be careful what you delete, as certain legacy software capability can be impacted. Some have said that Monolingual is not recommended for those that run older Power PC vintage software on their new Macs.

SSD gives you the whole 64GB. Os X takes away 8 so you'll have 56gb left. I'd really opt for the 128gb at least. I got my 128GB and it's already down to 20gb of storage.

64 GB SSD formats out to just over 59 GB. The Flash memory is still rated by the manufacturer on the decimal base measurement, but software looks at it from a Binary perspective.

Your 128 GB drive has a formatted capacity of 120.99 GB. You can right click and "Get Info"to check this.

I think I have a pretty typical office-setup, installed the following on a 64G MBA 11.6:

- MS Office
- Thunderbird (with about 2G of mail)
- Adium
- Skype

Have ~42G left.

I also bought the 128GB version but when i look at the "get info" section it says it has a capacity of ~120GB and available ~109 GB.

Any idea why its gone from 128 to 120 to 109?

Also its my first time using Mac and I installed Flash Player 3 times before it started working (needed to reboot). Would that use up 3x the space or does it write over itself?