#Macos catalina vs mojave update
The clearest picture is seen in a graph of cumulative update size against minor version number, below. Total update size delivered so far has been 13.86 GB in 5 updates for Intel Macs, and 22.27 GB in 6 updates for M1 models. Sizes of updates are also different: for Intel Macs these have ranged from 2.3-3.27 GB, for M1s 3.1-4.2 GB. The initial release for Intel Macs was 11.0.1, which was an update for early M1 models, which came with 11.0 pre-installed, and required immediate updating to 11.0.1. Although we haven’t yet reached 11.3, there have already been 6 updates to the initial 11.0 release, and there are marked differences between Intel and M1 Macs.
#Macos catalina vs mojave Patch
With its change in version numbering system, macOS 11 has hopefully replaced the Supplemental Update with patch releases like 11.2.2. Total updates released after 10.15 amounted to 32.17 GB in 12 updates. Its smallest update, after an SU for the initial release, was 1.2 GB, and the largest was 4.5 GB for 10.15.1. Total updates released after 10.14 amounted to 21.53 GB in 10 updates.Ĭatalina had many more SUs, and exceptionally ran to 10.15.7, and even that had an SU. Smallest updates were a little less than 1 GB, and the largest only 3 GB.
This started well, with just one Supplemental Update (SU) added prior to 10.14.6, but ended rather messily, with no less than three SUs to its last version, 10.14.6. First, let me briefly review the update history of each of the last three versions of macOS. Here are some figures to provide objective evidence to your feelings. Subjectively, we think Big Sur is proving far heavier on updates. It’s not just the frequency that has us whingeing either: particularly if you’ve got an M1 Mac, these are big updates, ranging in size from 3.1 to 4.2 GB. This has been particularly severe over the last six weeks: we got Big Sur 11.2 on 1 February, 11.2.1 on 9 February, 11.2.2 on 25 February, 11.2.3 on 9 March, and later this month we’re likely to get 11.3. If you’re back on Catalina or earlier, the reason that your friends using Big Sur go quiet for one day every couple of weeks is that they’re updating.
I’m all for timely updates to macOS, but if you’re keeping a Big Sur system up-to-date you’ll know what I mean when I say you can have too much of a good thing.
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