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Why are Updates for the Mac twice the size?

Loydin Tripp
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Join date: 28 Apr 2006
Posts: 150
08-02-2006 08:29
As is often the case the Mac update (52mb) for this version of Second Life is twice the size of the version for Windows (25mb).

Whats going on? With the once every week download and sometimes more I am beginning to receive surcharges for exceeding my bandwidth allotment from my ISP.
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Torley Linden
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Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
08-02-2006 12:52
Asking about this...
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Torley Linden
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Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
08-02-2006 13:01
Josh clued me in--it's because the Mac download is a Universal Binary, which contains both the Intel Mac-compatible and legacy PowerPC versions. So, about twice the size.
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