Snow Leopard Upgrade Completed — How Much Storage is Reclaimed?

It’s far too early to get into performance, user interface changes or application compatibility, but my Snow Leopard update is complete. Removing legacy code and optimizing existing functions surely has a noticeable impact on hard drive space, as expected. Here’s a before and after of the hard drive on my Mac Book:

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Although it looks like I’ve essentially gained 24GB of storage capacity as a result of the upgrade, the actual space used has only decreased by about 7GB after the 42 minute process. See the difference in how Leopard reported free space as opposed to Snow Leopard? The exact same hard drive shows as a different total capacity in the Activity Monitor. Note — I didn’t install the language translations, but that effort isn’t too significant to the extra space — not installing them only saves 271MB of storage.

Personally, I couldn’t care less about the extra capacity whether it’s 7GB or 24GB. I don’t install many applications as I live in a browser, so it’s not like I really need the space. For traditional Mac users however, the extra storage is surely welcome. As far as application compatibility, I better go check out Audacity — I have to mix our weekly podcast for publication later today and that’s an essential application for me.

Did you receive and upgrade to Snow Leopard? Drop a comment with any experiences, issues or compatibility problems.

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