11.6.1 update

[colourfastt]

Is it REALLY necessary for a security update to be 2.56G? I started the "update" over 30 minutes ago and it hasn't even gotten to the INSTALL. So after the 45 to 60 minutes for the "download/preparing", I'll have to twiddle my thumbs while wasting another 45 to 60 while a security update installs. Does anyone besides me remember when updates used to be discrete items (usually not more than 150M or so) and RARELY required a reboot? Steve Jobs should reach out from his grave and bitch-slap those running Apple these days.

 

[ewu]

Apple assumes that everyone has NBN network with 5MB/s, 10MB/s or 20MB/s.

with NBN network, 2.56G will take about 6 minutes to download and installation will take 10 to 15 minutes.

 

[nmt1900]

I suspect that this probably might be having to do with the structural change of the system which Big Sur brought to us - signed system volume. As system volume must be signed again after any updates to it, then we just can not update few files in it in a short moment and be done with it in a few minutes while rebooting.

Then again I might be wrong (about details), but it is obvious that applying small updates was simpler before SSV, but there seems to be a price to pay for this method of tamper protection.

Now you just know, that it is not a good idea to do these updates to your machine in a middle of a workday, because you just have to be ready for at least 15 or 30 minutes of downtime. These tend to look more like big release upgrades of Windows 10, which also take quite a long time to complete...

 

[paddylaz]

Most os updates also come with drivers don't they? GPU etc.

But yeah it's stupidly big.

 

[burgman]

I didn't get any notifications about .1 until I started to update to Monterey. I assumed it was necessary for Monterey install. After it completed I decided to wait and see what's broken.

 

[Daniel_Lim2300]

Updated and everything is ok. 😃