Today, it takes 3x longer to download an installer and 3x more space to store on Mac endpoints plus 3x more working disk space to run.

As the size of the macOS installer grows, the complexity of deploying it grows exponentially.

No administrator should be surprised or unprepared for a new version of macOS each year. It’s an established pattern that’s been in place for a decade.

Apple is aggressively updating its Mac operating system.What does this teach us as administrators? However, threats from for-profit malware hidden in apps or tainted downloads quadrupled in 2019 according to a USA Today report. Traditional malware such as viruses and worms are still minimal to non-existent. Today’s macOS is under increased threat from malware and bad actors.Its most recent macOS Monterey 12.0.1 installer weighs in at about 12 GB - nearly triple in size. The OS X Lion 10.7 installer was about 4.72 GB.

The size of its Mac operating system installers has grown considerably over those 10 years too.It released Mac OS X Lion (10.7) in 2011 and every year since has released a new major version. Apple has been on a 1-year major release cycle for its Mac operating system for the past 10 years.

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