Question about storage space on my new Air

[eddieg]

On my new out of the box 64 gig air it says in the settings>about that the capacity is 56.7 gig what happened to the other 7 gig i know the OS takes up space but does it take that much?

 

[J. A.]

This will explain why it's lower: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419

 

[col.bris]

Welcome to our forums regardless of what operating system you use, ie. Apple Os, iOS, windows android you name it you loose up to 10% of storage.. Johanna's link explains this. In other words it is normal....the same apples to external devices like hard drives and USB sticks.

 

[eddieg]

Ok thanks guys.