![]() ![]() In addition to that, most Mac applications are localized, so a single application can be used by, say, both English and German users. These applications contain two versions of the same app and you’ll likely never ever need one of them. In order to support both architectures many developers distribute their applications as universal binaries, also known as fat binaries. As you may know Apple has switched from PowerPC processors to Intel a few years ago, but there’re still lots of old Macs with PowerPC processors. There is a way to nearly half the space occupied by the apps (not games, unfortunately :D). ![]() Loving Steam games? Then add about 9 GB for Team Fortress 2, 8 GB for Left4Dead and 2 GB for Killing Floor or Portal and so on and so forth. And these are just daily use apps like iTunes (150 MB) or iPhoto (330 MB). Look at the /Applications folder and you’ll see that many Mac apps are sized 100-500 MB. Let’s see what you can do about this… Huge apps and fat binaries Gigabytes of movies, music, ever-growing picture archives and other needful things easily get out of control, especially if you use your Mac for editing movies, making music or simply download lots of data from torrents the web. No matter how large is your hard disk, sooner or later you’ll run out of space. ![]()
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