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Originally Posted by TekDragon
"Reduced disk usage" translates into they didn't install EVERY printer driver like they used to. I'm glad to see they finally did that. I take jabs when I can at mac owners, but in reality, I'm glad to see OSX move forward with improvements.
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Yea, that is a large chunk, but the other more interesting savings are that they have stripped out the old PowerPC code from the applications. Another fundamental change is the way the HFS+ drive structure has changed. A lot of the applications are actually compressed now, but they still run without a performance hit.
The other main reason for gaining space is that Apple is calculating the amount using base 10 math, not base 2. So your 120 gb drive shows up as 120 gb, not 111 gb. This is a lame tho, since on a PC a file might be 10 mb, but on a mac it will be 11 or 12 mb. This will just confuse a hell of a lot of people who need to check file sizes. I wonder if this will affect check sum programs.