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Every update needs a restart. How does your mac update without a restart, the latter updates require an installation where OS X isn't running.

by neximo4 11y ago

mikeash 11y ago
I'm saying updates have always required a restart. You said you remember a time when this was not the case, and I'm pretty sure such times never existed.
- neximo4 11y ago
  No they haven't. On the 'Steve Jobs' versions of OS X updates never needed a restart, such versions as Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. The only exception was on major updates where a DVD was required for the update. They even used to use that it used to do this to bash windows. The 'Steve Jobs' OS X versions were very refined. Somewhere around Lion everything went downhill. Mountain Lion's flaws were slowly more pronounced. It also used to be than a new OS X version used to be faster despite it running on the same hardware. Its hard to say if this has changed.
  - mikeash 11y ago
    Here's a screenshot of Leopard requiring a restart for an update: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--L-qfNFHD--/18fc9hrtp1eznpng.png http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--L-qfNFHD... Here's one for Snow Leopard: http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mac-os-x-10.6.3-update.JPG http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mac-os-x-... Lion: http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Screen-Shot-2012-02-01-at-5.40.37-PM.jpg http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Screen-S... And just in case you think this was real but you got the era wrong, here's a screenshot of 10.3 requiring a restart for all sorts of updates, including a Safari update and a Daylight Saving Time update: https://systemfolder.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/softupdpanther.jpg?w=516&h=586 https://systemfolder.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/softupdpant... Plus a normal OS update: http://sillydog.org/graph/temp/ss_swupdate01.jpg http://sillydog.org/graph/temp/ss_swupdate01.jpg
    - neximo4 11y ago
      I could have sworn the restart requirement was rare. I stand corrected.

Every update needs a restart. How does your mac update without a restart, the latter updates require an installation where OS X isn't running.

by neximo4 11y ago

Every update needs a restart. How does your mac update without a restart, the latter updates require an installation where OS X isn't running.

mikeash 11y ago

I'm saying updates have always required a restart. You said you remember a time when this was not the case, and I'm pretty sure such times never existed.

neximo4 11y ago
No they haven't. On the 'Steve Jobs' versions of OS X updates never needed a restart, such versions as Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. The only exception was on major updates where a DVD was required for the update. They even used to use that it used to do this to bash windows. The 'Steve Jobs' OS X versions were very refined. Somewhere around Lion everything went downhill. Mountain Lion's flaws were slowly more pronounced. It also used to be than a new OS X version used to be faster despite it running on the same hardware. Its hard to say if this has changed.
- mikeash 11y ago
  Here's a screenshot of Leopard requiring a restart for an update: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--L-qfNFHD--/18fc9hrtp1eznpng.png http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--L-qfNFHD... Here's one for Snow Leopard: http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mac-os-x-10.6.3-update.JPG http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mac-os-x-... Lion: http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Screen-Shot-2012-02-01-at-5.40.37-PM.jpg http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Screen-S... And just in case you think this was real but you got the era wrong, here's a screenshot of 10.3 requiring a restart for all sorts of updates, including a Safari update and a Daylight Saving Time update: https://systemfolder.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/softupdpanther.jpg?w=516&h=586 https://systemfolder.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/softupdpant... Plus a normal OS update: http://sillydog.org/graph/temp/ss_swupdate01.jpg http://sillydog.org/graph/temp/ss_swupdate01.jpg
  - neximo4 11y ago
    I could have sworn the restart requirement was rare. I stand corrected.