dennis@home wrote:

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

Shame that the updates (e.g. from 8 to 8.1) involve such huge
downloads - 3.6 or 3.8 GB

I recently updated mine and it was 880 Mbytes.

That sounds like the size of the recent 8.1 to 8.1U1 update, not the 8
to 8.1 update.