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Mac OS X Mountain Lion Surpasses 3 Million Downloads in 4 Days
- kondro 14y agoThat's over 280Gbps sustained over that period, probably peaking to more than 3x that amount!
- iSloth 14y agoFortunately for ISP's they are using the Akamai network for updates :)
- lloeki 14y agoFor various reasons I downloaded it three times in the two days following the release, and each time it consistently filled my downlink (at home, 15Mbit/s, and at work 20Mbit/s). The CDN definitely did a nice job.
- pooriaazimi 14y agoThey also released lots and lots of "minor" updates for different applications (iWork = 1GB, iLife = 3GB, OS X Voices = 1GB, ...), so the number is actually higher than that.
- calciphus 14y agoHeh, that's the rounding error in a Windows release.
- mrmagooey 14y agoLike the vista release?
- Tloewald 14y agoMicrosoft basically sells 20M Windows 7 licenses pee month (driven almost entirely by PC sales) so the Apple figures are actually quite impressive (given Apple's smaller base). http://www.tomsguide.com/us/windows-history-sales-figure-comparisons,news-11836.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/windows-history-sales-figure-com...
- briandear 14y agoEven more impressive is that 3 million downloads represents users upgrading, not OEM purchases.
- taligent 14y agoThe bigger story is that this all done painlessly through the Mac App Store. Microsoft really should have been doing this a decade ago.