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From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 3:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?
From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, 19 December 2008 12:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC?
<choppity chop>
And I didn't realize Mac was the only OS burdened with updates. I could
have sworn I've had to run updates on my PC once or twice in the past.
No, the "off the cuff" remark I was making was about the *size* of the
patches. Seems every app patch is almost a complete reinstallation of
the app. A lot seem to be in the 50-100MB size. I didn't want to make a
big deal about it - it was just humour on the side.
Cheers
Ken
That's because, depending on the application, they might actually BE
full reinstalls. iTunes and QuickTime are absolutely the worst for
this, and they tend to be the most commonly updated applications. Also,
Apple is big on sending out consolidated, single file updates per
architecture. When you bring down the 10.5.6 update, for example, it's
a compilation of every patch they've written between 10.5.5 and 10.5.6.
You usually won't get simple patches from them, the way you would in
Windows for a GDI+ problem, for example.
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