{"id":34905,"date":"2022-02-03T16:11:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34905"},"modified":"2022-02-03T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:12:07","slug":"have-monterey-updates-got-smaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/03\/have-monterey-updates-got-smaller\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Monterey Updates Gotten Smaller?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2022\/02\/02\/have-monterey-updates-got-smaller\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2022\/02\/02\/have-monterey-updates-got-smaller\/\">\n<p>By my reckoning (and your mileage may vary), the 12.1 update was 2.8 GB for Intel and 3.2 for M1, which are about 1 GB smaller than the equivalent updates for Big Sur. macOS 12.2 update was smaller still, at 2.4 (Intel) and 2.75 GB (M1).<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The only cost of Monterey&rsquo;s smaller updates is longer time required to &lsquo;prepare&rsquo; each update prior to its installation, which has risen from 15 minutes (macOS 11) to 30 (macOS 12).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I continue to have problems, starting with Mojave or Catalina, where sometimes an update doesn&rsquo;t complete and I have to power cycle the Mac several times.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/15\/larger-and-slower-updates-with-big-sur\/\">Larger and Slower Updates With Big Sur<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: By my reckoning (and your mileage may vary), the 12.1 update was 2.8 GB for Intel and 3.2 for M1, which are about 1 GB smaller than the equivalent updates for Big Sur. macOS 12.2 update was smaller still, at 2.4 (Intel) and 2.75 GB (M1). [&#8230;] The only cost of Monterey&rsquo;s smaller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-02-03T21:11:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"0544a78b-d05a-4dc4-9ced-095b17ae8ee3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-02-03T21:12:11Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ABUSni9BaTcSc7QlbF66O4w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,30,2077,2087],"class_list":["post-34905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-mac","tag-macos-12","tag-software-update"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34907,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905\/revisions\/34907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}