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The DVD of Snow Leopard was something like 7.09gig in size, and the Mac Store download of the new Lion install is <4gig.
Why the big difference in size?
Since Snow Leopard was a physical disc, did it include extra drivers or such, where the d/l of Lion is 'just' the base OS?
1 Answer
The Developer Tools (760 MB) included on the Snow Leopard DVD are not part of the OS X Lion installer. They are a free separate download in XCode 4.1
A whole whackload of printer drivers (~400 MB) are not included in OS X Lion. Presumably they are downloaded when a new printer is added.
The Snow Leopard DVD includes a
Libraryfolder (1.3 GB) with frameworks etc. needed because the DVD is bootable, while the OS X Lion installer creates a bootable partition for installation.That said, the
Essentials.pkgis actually bigger in OS X Lion: 1.35GB vs. 882 MB
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Those are the major differences that jumped out at me, I'm sure there are other minor differences I've glossed over. The actual 'Installation' package on the Snow Leopard DVD is ~4 GB, the OS X Lion installation DMG is 3.74 GB.