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<blockquote data-quote="joema" data-source="post: 1625123" data-attributes="member: 312925"><p>Ditto that, 100 times. Here's a good example: I have a Windows 7 laptop and two MacBook Air laptops. They often sit in a Pelican strong box for weeks (sometimes a few months) before a new project. When I pull out and update the Windows 7 laptop it takes an eternity and often many reboots to get the updates installed. By contrast when I update the MacBook it is quick and painless. </p><p></p><p>I just updated my 2nd MacBook to Yosemite and it did that *major* OS update faster than installing a series of minor Windows 7 updates.</p><p></p><p>If Windows updates accidentally get downloaded while you're in the field, then you accidentally reboot the PC, it can be stuck in "applying updates" for a long, long time. I had that happened on a camera-tethered laptop and it took so long I had to go get another PC.</p><p></p><p>These are just the "dirty corners" of the Windows architecture. Improving areas like this are not cool, they are messy and complicated, and no developer wants to work on it. Hence it tends to stay the same, version after version.</p><p></p><p>It's not like Macs never need rebooting and never apply updates but somehow it happens much faster, is far less intrusive, and reboots are much less frequent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joema, post: 1625123, member: 312925"] Ditto that, 100 times. Here's a good example: I have a Windows 7 laptop and two MacBook Air laptops. They often sit in a Pelican strong box for weeks (sometimes a few months) before a new project. When I pull out and update the Windows 7 laptop it takes an eternity and often many reboots to get the updates installed. By contrast when I update the MacBook it is quick and painless. I just updated my 2nd MacBook to Yosemite and it did that *major* OS update faster than installing a series of minor Windows 7 updates. If Windows updates accidentally get downloaded while you're in the field, then you accidentally reboot the PC, it can be stuck in "applying updates" for a long, long time. I had that happened on a camera-tethered laptop and it took so long I had to go get another PC. These are just the "dirty corners" of the Windows architecture. Improving areas like this are not cool, they are messy and complicated, and no developer wants to work on it. Hence it tends to stay the same, version after version. It's not like Macs never need rebooting and never apply updates but somehow it happens much faster, is far less intrusive, and reboots are much less frequent. [/QUOTE]
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