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Saturday, October 11, 2003

And you thought there were too many Windows updates...
In preparation for the release of Panther later this month, I started backing up and reinstalling my two Macs this weekend. The first to go was the 17-inch iMac, which was brand new in March. After backing up all my data, music, pictures, email, Safari bookmarks, and so on, I decided to do a clean install of the OS the machine shipped with, Mac OS X 10.2.6, to see how things had changed since I first got it. Imagine my amusement when, on first boot, I discovered that this base install required a whopping 170 MB of software updates to bring the machine up-to-date. That figures makes the 70-100 MB of software updates a clean Windows XP SP1 install requires seem almost piddly by comparison. In the Windows world, we spend a lot of time complaining about the number of software updates that Microsoft releases, but ... my God. Apple is not only far worse, but consider how new this machine is, and how often Apple releases "major" OS X updates on CD. This is simply unbelievable.

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