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Apple wants to economise on the bandwidth?

by crispin . Original by Lionel - 06/01/2009 07:38:38 CET
As time passes, the number and size the updates of Mac OS X and the associated components (security updates, QuickTime…) increases. Even though one hardly pays attention to it when there is only one computer, things become complicated if one has several, or worse if one administers a network with many. In this case, it is preferable to download the updates in Combo form and then to put them on the individual machines via the network or a memory stick, and this is long and complex. According to 9to5mac, Apple could offer another more elegant solution via Time Capsule which could change to be a local Mac OS X server for these updates.
They would be downloaded first before being automatically offered to the machines present on the network. In addition to the considerable time-saver of remote downloading, this solution would bring a large saving in bandwidth for the Apple servers that slow down at the time of the large updates, an economy on the level of use of Akamai and there is no need to remind that for our Internet operators the bandwidth consumed elsewhere also costs money.
PS: While remaining on the subject of Time Capsules, it becomes more interesting than ever to buy the 500 GB model and to replace the disk. The difference in price between the 500 GB version and 1 TB is still 200€, and a disk of 1 TB costs today lsignificantly less 100€. For a little bit more one can even have a 1,5 TB model. You will find an article describing the replacement of its disk at the following web address:
http://www.hardmac.com/articles/79/
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