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All MacOS patches (whether minor or major) all take 20-30+ minutes. Even on the new M1/M2 chips. It makes keeping MacOS up to date in an enterprise / corporate

by cj 4y ago

All MacOS patches (whether minor or major) all take 20-30+ minutes. Even on the new M1/M2 chips. It makes keeping MacOS up to date in an enterprise / corporate environment a pain (an employee updating their computer in the morning puts them out of commission for 45 minutes - then complaints of missing meetings, etc)

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
And Mac fans complain about Windows Updates being annoying? Sounds like pot kettle thing.
- OnlyMortal 4y ago
  In my experience the updates on the Mac aren’t as frequent as the Windows ones.
  - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
    Most windows updates today are completely silent though. Only the major ones ask for a system reboot and IMO those show up one every couple of weeks.
- o_m 4y ago
  This didn't used to be a thing. I've started being annoyed by it this year, but I Don't remember when minor updates started to take 20+ minutes.
jmbwell 4y ago
Some of this may be related to system volume signing, in which cryptographic signatures for the entire system volume are recomputed following an update. The entire filesystem tree is re-hashed recursively. Once the signatures are recomputed, the signatures are checked at each boot (which goes much faster, of course), and if verification fails, the system declines to start up. More info: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/signed-system-volume-security-secd698747c9/web https://support.apple.com/guide/security/signed-system-volum...