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Re:Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System by stevenhuang on Sunday February 28, 2021 @03:21PM (#26296684)
That's just one update.

Multiply that for every week throughout the lifetime of a mac and the benefits of delta updates are clear.

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Re:Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System by read_if_gay_ on Sunday February 28, 2021 @03:51PM (#26296949)
Building a 13" MBP produces ~200kg of CO2[1]. Taking GP's 50 million figure we get 10 billion tons of CO2. Very generously assume each one gets 1000 updates, you end up with 360,000 tons of CO2 total for all of these updates, or about 0.0036% of the cost of building them in the first place.

There are actual benefits to delta updates but the environmental impact isn't one of them.

[1] https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/notebooks/13-...

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Re:Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System by Someone on Sunday February 28, 2021 @04:40PM (#26297338)
Do Macs see a multi-gigabyte update each week? I haven’t noticed that. What do I overlook?
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Re:Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System by mr_toad on Sunday February 28, 2021 @09:23PM (#26299066)
MacOS isn’t updated every week, or even every month.
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