Recently my friend received her new MacBook. The computer has an 80 gig hardrive, but is already down to 57 gigs out of the box. Knowing that Apple installs all the extra languages on the new computers, I was wondering if there is a way to get rid of them without reloading the system from the CD and customizing them out? ***JBMac***
not that im aware of i had the same problem with my mac mini it is suppose to be a 60 gig hard drive and out of the box it is only 50 gigs the reason i found out has nothing to do with languages it has to do with extra applications and system files which are nessesary on the new intel based macintosh systems my recommendation is this yes you could remove the languages if you purchased just os x tiger not the restore cds that come with the computer but this will only remove 100 megs worth of garbage my recommendation is this 1.remove the 30 day trial version of office for mac that is well over 6 gig's right there 2.remove and software that is trial version software like iworks and even the quicken demo that usually ships on that model but you also have to consider this when mac os x partitions a hard drive it partitions it into three partitions 1 partition is 128 megs 2 partition is the remander of your hard drive space 3.and the 3rd is a cache file only 28 kb is size i would have to say there is a lot of garbage on the machine you do not need
To remove unwanted languages use DeLocalizer and you will get back 2-3 GB. FYI it works perfectly on Intel Macs (read reviews). http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9281 You can also use Disk Inventory X to check what else is taking up the space in your HD and delete what you do not want. http://www.derlien.com/ Also remember that for HD manufacturers 1GB = 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes but for a computer 1GB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes. So a 80GB HD according to the manufacturer is a 74.5GB HD according to the computer.
