Conserving memory on my new macbook?

Conserving memory on my new macbook?
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answer:iPhoto makes a thumbnail (a small version) of the image that is really small and won’t add significantly to your hard drive getting filled up faster. I just checked and one photo I have the thumbnail is 64KB and the original is 3.1MB. The thumbnail is about 2% of the original file size. It makes the thumbnails so it doesn’t have to load all of the huge image files when you scroll through them. When you view the image full size is when it loads the big file. This makes iPhoto much faster. If you edit your photos in iPhoto it does make a copy so you still have the original. That can start to add up. edit :: I wanted to ask if you have GarageBand installed? Do you ever use it? All the sample sounds and loops take up a huge amount of space. It is about a Gig on my computer.
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