It'll still be quicker than everyday MS updates - last but one monthly update to my dad's Dell laptop took 4 HOURS !! The same day I downloaded and installed Lion from scratch in 56 mins (same net connection). On 15 Mar 2012, at 18:10, Henry Baker wrote:
I'm in the process of downloading iPad 5.1 software: 729 Mbytes! I think that this must be a record for a casual software update. Microsoft will certainly want to beat them for the first Gigabyte software update.
I guess that pretty much kills the data plan for the month.
Has Apple never heard of rsync ? (Hint: it's already part of the Unix SW that Apple uses.)
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