The change to delta updates will most affect Mac owners with slow or heavily-metered connections to the Internet. ![]() ![]() Lion is the first Mac OS X edition that deals out smaller "delta" updates, ones which deliver only changes. What's notable about 10.7.1 is its small size relative to typical Apple updates: 10.7.1 weighed in at just 17.4MB on several iMacs, compared with as much as 453MB for Mac OS X 10.6.8, the update to Snow Leopard Apple shipped in late June. ![]() In a very long and popular thread - viewed over 46,000 times - with the title "Lion randomly crashes - black screen" some users said that 10.7.1 had eliminated their BSODs (Black Screen of Death) while others said theirs persisted. Click the partition on which your operating system is installed - in this case its called Mac OS X - and, under the First Aid tab, click Repair Disk Permissions. Users who quickly grabbed 10.7.1 reported different results for other problems that have garnered attention on Apple's support forum. Several MacBook Air- and Mac Mini-specific problems were dealt with the update targeting those new systems, including one that supposedly deals with display flickering on the Air and another that is supposed to boost the speed of data transfers from the SD card slot on the Mini.
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