I have to applaud Apple for releasing another update/upgrade to Mac OS X “Jaguar” … but …
The god damned thing is 51 MB in size.
51 MB.
Now I know what it really feels like to be without broadband.
I’m sitting here on my plunky dunky 56K modem thinking… WTF?
56K + 51 MB = like fucking forever to download …
It looks like a ‘must have’ update, but I’ll be waiting till after the new year to download and install this update due to the un-dialup friendly size.
You know in Apple’s Software Update Control Panel there could be room for a ‘buy now’ button that took a user to a page that allowed them to order the update on CD for $19.95 or so? Apple could produce short runs of software update CDs that included everything from the previous quarter or so on one CD and when inserted in the CD Drive with Software Update running the upgrade process could be ‘automated’ just like it is with a broadband connection…
Just an idea.
Just think about all the Microsoft users who have to download that much in updates weekly just to keep their OS “safe”.
If you want, I’ll download it (I’m on a T1 at work) and burn it to a CD for you. Email me your mailing addy and I’ll drop it in the mail for you. No need to wait until next year!
Well, that’s hardly the sort of picture I expected with an entry that has “big ass” in the title.
Then again, you *do* have good taste, so I really don’t feel tricked.
That’s genius… They could lower the price of .Mac and still make money
I like the idea of quarterly updates. Were I on DU, I’d pay 30 bucks a year to get a couple CD’s every now and then.
Maybe allow people to bring a CD-R into an Apple Store and burn a copy of the update? No charge.
If you think that’s bad, try the 301 MB developer tools update they posted today.
I’m 45 minutes in at a blazing 20 KB/sec, and “over 3 hours” to go!
It reminds me of the 7.5.3 update. For a dot-dot update of 7.5, it was huge and absolutely required (it’s where the networking subsystem changed to Open Transport). You had to download eighteen floppies. What made things worse was that Disk Copy at the time required you to make actual disks – so after all that downloading, I had to rummage up eighteen working floppy disks. I can’t remember if I had moved beyond 2400 baud at that time. I just remember that update took a *long* time to pull off.
That computer still sees minor use (sans internet) running system 7.5.5.
Any Apple store lets you burn the updates if you bring in your own CD-R. Or buy one from them…