Refined Experience and Improved Performance Make Your Mac Better
than Ever
Apple® today announced that OS X® El Capitan, the latest major
release of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, will
be available on Wednesday, September 30 as a free update for Mac®
users. El Capitan builds on the groundbreaking features and
beautiful design of OS X Yosemite, refining the Mac experience with
updates to window management, built-in apps and Spotlight® search,
and performance improvements to make everyday activities — like
launching and switching apps, opening PDFs and accessing email —
faster and more responsive.
“People love using their Macs, and one of the biggest reasons is
the power and ease-of-use of OS X,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s
senior vice president of Software Engineering. “El Capitan refines
the Mac experience and improves performance in a lot of little ways
that make a very big difference. Feedback from our OS X beta
program has been incredibly positive and we think customers are
going to love their Macs even more with El Capitan.”
Refinements to the Mac Experience
El Capitan gives you simpler and smarter ways to do the things
you do most with your Mac. A streamlined Mission Control® makes it
easier to see and organize everything you have open on your Mac.
With a single swipe, Mission Control arranges all your windows in a
single layer so you can find the window you need even faster. When
your desktop gets crowded, simply drag a window to the top of your
screen to create a new Space and spread out your work. And the new
Split View feature automatically positions two app windows
side-by-side in full screen so you can work with both apps without
distraction.
Spotlight gets even smarter in El Capitan. You can now use
Spotlight to check stock prices, weather conditions and forecasts,
sports scores, schedules and standings, and even athlete
information. You can also search with Spotlight to find a file
using natural language. Simply type “email from Harrison in April”
or “presentation I worked on yesterday” and Spotlight will help you
find exactly what you are looking for. You can resize the Spotlight
window to display more results or move it anywhere on your
desktop.
OS X built-in apps are even better in El Capitan. Safari® now
features Pinned Sites to keep your favorite websites open and
active and a new mute button to quickly silence browser audio from
any tab. Mail introduces Smart Suggestions, which recognizes names
or events in a Mail message and prompts you to add them to your
contacts or calendar with a single click. You can also swipe to
delete messages, just like in iOS, and juggle multiple emails while
Mail is in full screen. In Photos, you can now edit locations,
batch change descriptions, sort albums by date or title, and take
editing to the next level with third-party editing extensions from
your favorite developers.
El Capitan features an all-new Notes app that lets you drag and
drop photos, PDFs, videos and other files into a note, and add
content directly from other apps, such as Safari web links or Maps
locations, using the Share menu. Easy-to-create checklists help you
keep track of important to-do items, and the new Attachments
Browser organizes your attachments in one simple view, making it
easy to find what you’re looking for. With iCloud®, your notes stay
in sync so you can create notes on one device and edit them or
check off items on your other devices.
Improvements to System Performance
OS X El Capitan improves system performance across your Mac,
making many of the things you do everyday faster and more
responsive. Metal™, Apple’s groundbreaking graphics technology,
accelerates Core Animation and Core Graphics to boost system-level
rendering by up to 50 percent, and efficiency by up to 40 percent,
resulting in faster graphics performance for everyday apps.* Metal
also takes full advantage of your CPU and GPU, delivering up to 10
times faster draw call performance for a richer, more fluid
experience in games and pro apps.*
El Capitan also features enhanced international language
support, including a new Chinese system font for both Traditional
and Simplified, with 50,000 beautifully designed characters for
crisp on-screen readability. Chinese keyboard input methods now
offer regularly updated vocabulary lists and a smarter candidate
window. El Capitan makes entering Japanese text faster by
automatically transforming Hiragana into written Japanese and
reducing the need to individually select and confirm word
conversions. You can now also select the perfect font for your
documents using four new Japanese typefaces.
Pricing & Availability
OS X El Capitan is available as a free update starting
Wednesday, September 30 from the Mac App Store℠. El Capitan
supports all Macs introduced in 2009 and later, and some models
introduced in 2007 and 2008.
*Testing conducted by Apple in August 2015 using 2.7GHz Intel
Core i5–based 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with 128GB of flash
storage and 8GB of RAM. Tested with prerelease OS X v10.11. Not all
features are available on all devices. Performance will vary based
on system configuration, application workload, and other
factors.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction
of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, the Mac and Apple Watch. Apple’s
three software platforms — iOS, OS X and watchOS — provide seamless
experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with
breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple
Pay and iCloud. Apple’s 100,000 employees are dedicated to making
the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we
found it.
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