Still, for the Mac crowd it’s better late than never: It’s convenient, for example, to consult the calendar app in one window while you’re in the Mail app trying to coordinate a meeting with a client.Īpple has cleaned up its birds-eye Mission Control feature, offering a single-layer view that makes finding what you’re looking for easier. Microsoft introduced a similar “snap” feature with the debut of Windows 7 in 2009. If this split-view feature sounds like something you’ve already seen on Windows, you’d be right. You can drag two windows side by side with each window claiming half the full screen, unless you manually readjust their width. Much of what Apple did with El Capitan is refine the way you can manage windows. The new operating system is compatible on iMacs and MacBook Pro models dating as far back as mid-2007 and other Macs from a more recent time. In general, Apple claims apps launch up to 40% faster in El Capitan. OK, my now tired 5-year old iMac still was pokey even after the upgrade.
Some of you will notice a bump up in speed, as I did after installing El Capitan on my two-year old MacBook Air. Developers can use it to produce more realistic graphics-rich games on the Mac.īut you’ll appreciate the fine-tuning that has been applied to your Mac and the new ways you can organize your work. Much of what’s included is aimed at developers, such as Apple Metal, which arrives on the Mac after debuting last year on iOS.
It may not bring a ton of new features and certainly none of the major variety. That said, by all means go grab El Capitan from the Mac App Store. Of course now that Apple refreshes OS X every year or so, there’s less of a need to scale your Mac to new heights each time around.
And El Capitan the free-to-download operating system update that will be made available Wednesday is about building on Yosemite inside your Mac. NEW YORK - Apple’s choice of “El Capitan” as the name of the successor to Mac OS X Yosemite bears a subtle underlying message: As operating system upgrades go, El Capitan is rather modest, certainly compared to last year’s migration from OS X Mavericks to Yosemite, or Microsoft’s more recent leap from Windows 8 to Windows 10.Īfter all, the natural resource that is El Capitan is a California rock formation inside Yosemite National Park.
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