and went ahead and tried a customized install. I also bought the external optical drive. So then about saving all the unneeded items. but never finds it!Īnyone have any ideas as to why I can't connect remotely? but I can connect to the network to access the internet? So then I manually type in my networks name and password. when I got to the part where it has you select your wireless network.well for some reason mine isn't listed, but it is listed when I connect to the internet? what's up with that? I first tried to do this remotely but to no avail. Real MS Word may be a total necessity for some people, but I should think a lot of you can ditch the rest of the Office suite.Ĭouple of questions with the reinstalling of leopard and doing a customization to save space. Try Mellel for word processing for about $50 and maybe Mariner's spreadsheet product, if you need a spreadsheet at all. IWork, unless you absolutely need it, ditch. But if you have any kind of decent iPod or iPhone, there's really no point. Really, you're looking at iTunes if you want to carry your music on it. Mobile graphics guys won't be using this. So you can whack iPhoto if that's the case. I can't imagine you can't keep the bulk of your iPhoto library off there, too. If you're running any kind of super-light, even hotel-room quality audio recording or production kit, you're at least in the MacBook line, and the Air is out. I'd really agree on iDVD - themes - and GarageBand - instruments and loops - too.
There are some files weaved in there OS X needs for its print architecture, hard to tell what they are, and if you delete them you can smack printing. It'll take a little time to reinstall the OS, but your hard drive will thank you later.Įasy on the printer drivers, if you delete rather than reinstall.
#How to save on a macbook air install
So if you reinstall OS X right away and customize the installation, you can choose not to install all those extra language support files and printer drivers, and reclaim a healthy chunk of your hard drive in the process. Normally, that's not worth worrying about, but with only 64 GB or 80 GB of disk space in the machine, you're talking about losing up to 10% of your drive capacity on stuff you may never, ever need. Specifically, I'm talking about foreign language support and preloaded printer drivers: Between these two things, an extra 6 GB or so of hard drive space is used. Why? It's simple.įor those of you who don't know, OS X comes with a lot of extra stuff you may not ever need. But when you get one, you may want to consider making your first action reinstalling OS X from the DVD that comes with the MacBook Air. OK, obviously no one has one of these yet.