Updates put the Big in Big Sur. At their smallest, each update to macOS 11 amounted to around 2.1 GB on Intel Macs and 3 GB on Apple silicon models. It was bad enough being on the receiving end, but for Apple’s software update servers and the engineers who built each of those updates, it must have been a recurrent nightmare. Ventura promises to improve on the improvements we’ve already seen in Monterey, and to bring us more timely and tiddly updates that don’t even require the Mac to reboot: Rapid Security Responses (RSR). If nothing else in Ventura seems particularly compelling, these should make you want to upgrade yesterday.
Although Apple hasn’t yet explained how these will work in Ventura, a near-identical system is already in operation with iOS 16, and is explained here.
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