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Not a great download experience so far. It has already failed twice partway through (2nd time after 9.0 GB out of 12.0 GB). And since this is Apple, who has somehow never figured out how to implement resumable downloads, it just starts from scratch again.

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Even worse, other stuff is breaking because Apple's infrastructure is on fire. Apps don't launch because signature checks are failing (ocsp.apple.com and crl.apple.com seem to be unreachable for me) and my Mac Pro hangs randomly for a few seconds every minute or so. It's quite ridiculous. :)

Omg, I keep rebooting in the last 20 minutes for no obvious reasons. Activity monitor just shows most of the apps as not responding.

Could it be because of this?

Good god, I thought I was losing my mind. I've been debugging those hangs, but hadn't made the connection with the OS launch. You have helped to preserve my remaining sanity.

About 30 minutes ago I ended up restarting because my computer was unusable, only to find the exact same behavior after logging back in... It seems to be getting better now but wow, there was about 40 minute where I could essentially not use my computer because Apple's infra was getting hammered.

Yeah, my mouse pointer was freezing for 90 seconds (and was jumpy at random times otherwise). If all of that was simply due to something being unable to phone home, then I think we have well surpassed any “benefits” of this “security” architecture.

DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy shit I was losing my god damn mind. I thought my new mac was dead, i was trying to debug using console/activity monitor/disk debug and didnt see any problems. WOW thank god it was this

Mine resumed. My internet went down at 11.9 GB and when it came back up the download quickly finished.

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