>>Bill,
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>>I guess you don't have an SSD in those machines. I did an upgrade and it was done in less than 20 minutes.
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>>Walter,
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>Yes, I have SSD in both machines and lots of RAM
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>They seemed to spend a lot of time going back to the web.
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>I use Cablevision here. You might have faster web speed.

Possibly, I've got a 50 / 200 Mbps connection at home.

Walter,




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>>>>Unless there's some specific difference I'm not aware of, what you're describing is the same install/upgrade process that MS has had for years.
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>>>I must have avoided the upgrade process by buying new machines, so this was my first.
>>>It's disgraceful.
>>>If you and I delivered apps like this to our clients we'd be out of business.
>>>I did two upgrades- once for my laptop- a very fast Dell- and once for my desktop, a real Dell blazer.
>>>I finally went to sleep while the laptop process ran. It had been running for over 4 hours.
>>>I don't know how long it finally ran
>>>The desktop was faster, but not much.
>>>
>>>In each case, the process just paused in place for as much as an hour with no indication of what was happening.
>>>If any of my apps pause for a much as two seconds, I give some kind of indication of what's happening, because clients get jittery and start pressing buttons that cause problems.
>>>The progress % values bear no relation to the actual times elapsed vs the time remaining.
>>>They're not even close.
>>>Why bother?
>>>They'd be better off just showing moving dots, or something like that, but really.. can't they get that right???
>>>
>>>At least 3 reboots were required each time.
>>>These are the people that make the OS.
>>>Can't they figure out a way to get an OS installed without 3 reboots?
>>>I ran a Unix installation for 10 years and rebooted that sever twice all that time.
>>>Imagine delivering an app that required 3 reboots and then trying to collect from a client.
>>>
>>>The reason that Apple is killing them in the marketplace is that no one at MS is demanding perfection.
>>>Good enough is good enough.