macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported

Re:macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than repo... by barbariangrunge on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:16AM (#37209853)

I had a gaming laptop idle for about 3 months. I decided to run some updates before we played some games on it one night and the updates took hours. They seem to always take hours

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Re:macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than repo... by OJFord on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:45AM (#37210224)

And then you reboot (because obviously that's necessary) and for some reason that means there's now 94 more updates available.

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Re:macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than repo... by kllrnohj on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:36AM (#37210989)

But your computer was usable for nearly the entire time, right? I don't care how long updates take if I can still keep doing things with it in the meantime. MacOS updates are the only thing that makes me sit and watch a progress bar for 20+ minutes.

I've never experienced anything similar with any of my Windows computers, nor Linux ones, nor ChromeOS ones. MacOS stands alone as having by far the shittiest and slowest update system imaginable. Even Android during its "recompile every installed app after an OTA" phase didn't take as long as MacOS does, and that's with massively slower CPU & storage!

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