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10.6.1 was 71MB, 10.6.2 was 473MB, and 10.6.3 is.. > 700MB? Has an Apple update ever been that large?
Perhaps there are drivers for video cards old and new crammed in to there to facilitate the new OpenGL 3.0 support.
To be fair, the 10.6.3 update is actually ~437MB via Software Update. The Combo update includes all past updates (1.6.1 and 1.6.2).
Mind. Blown.
Why?

I don't mean to be snarky. I don't actually understand why this is a "mind blowing" release (other than the fact that it was released by Apple).

The sheer size of this update gets me. 10.6.2 ran just fine for me, and I haven't noticed a thing since I installed today's update.
FWIW, X11 has been upgraded to a newer xquartz version, restoring 16-bit accumulation buffers.
... but if you really care about X11 support, you should probably be using the XQuartz releases anyway (http://xquartz.macosforge.org/). They're still "official", just not guaranteed to be as stable as OS updates.
When will they release TRIM support? I am sad.
Maybe when it actually boosts real world benchmarks.

Maybe once drives start shipping with it enabled, so you suffer a massive performance degradation without TRIM being called by the OS (since the firmware isn't collecting its own garbage).

Maybe once Intel can ramp up their production enough to take OEM customers for their SSDs and it can really go mainstream.

Installed just fine for me, although I see zero evidence of it actually doing anything for me.
There are reports of 10.6.3 causing problems with MacFusion/sshfs, so if you rely on MacFuse to access files remotely, take caution.

References: http://groups.google.com/group/macfusion-devel/browse_thread... , and a guy in my office who sent an email out after his 10.6.3 upgrade was useless for him.

I wish Apple silently included support for new MBPs and will release those things soon. Getting really tired of waiting for new ones.