On 17/04/2014 22:49, polygonum wrote:

I am quite impressed that the whole installation process is pretty
slick. Shame that the updates (e.g. from 8 to 8.1) involve such huge
downloads - 3.6 or 3.8 GB, from memory. Fine if you have a very fast
internet connection, impossible if yours is slow.


I recently updated mine and it was 880 Mbytes.
I don't know why you would need 3600 Mbytes.