Apple® today announced OS X® El Capitan, a new version of OS X that
refines the Mac® experience and improves system performance. Building on
last year’s landmark release of OS X Yosemite, El Capitan introduces
enhancements to window management, built-in apps and Spotlight® search,
and makes everyday activities — from launching apps to accessing email —
faster and more responsive. Metal™, Apple’s breakthrough graphics
technology, is integrated into El Capitan, delivering system-wide
performance gains and enabling games and pro apps to tap into the full
power of Mac graphics processors.
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“OS X delivers unparalleled integration between Mac hardware, iOS
devices, apps and online services, and has helped Mac sales outpace the
PC industry every year for the last decade,” said Craig Federighi,
Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “Customers loved
last year’s landmark OS X Yosemite release and made it the
fastest-adopted PC operating system ever. With El Capitan, we’re further
refining the Mac experience with enhancements to window management,
Spotlight and built-in apps, and improving performance so everyday
activities — from launching apps to accessing email — are faster and
more responsive.”
Refinements to the Mac Experience
OS X El Capitan refinements begin with the new system font, San
Francisco, a modern and easy-to-read typeface that looks stunning on a
Retina® display. Mission Control®, the quickest way to view all open
windows, has a cleaner design 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 access the new Spaces Bar in Mission Control and
create a new Space, OS X’s intuitive way to group applications. 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.
Built-in apps are even more streamlined in El Capitan. Safari® now
features Pinned Sites to keep your favorite websites open and active in
your tab bar 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 now swipe to delete messages,
just like in iOS, and juggle multiple emails while Mail is in full
screen. In Photos, you can add locations to a single image or an entire
Moment, and sort albums by date or title. Additionally, you’ll be able
to download third-party editing extensions from the Mac App Store℠ and
access them directly within the Photos app.
With the all-new Notes app in El Capitan you can drag and drop photos,
PDFs, videos and other files into notes, and add content directly from
other apps, such as Safari or Maps, 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 across all your enabled devices.
Spotlight gets even smarter in El Capitan, generating results for even
more topics, including weather, stocks, sports, transit and web video.
You can now resize the Spotlight window to display more results or move
it anywhere on your desktop, and use natural language to find documents
and files on your Mac based on when they were created or who you sent
them to.
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.
Availability
The developer preview of OS X El Capitan is available to Mac Developer
Program members starting today. Mac users can participate in the El
Capitan Beta Program in July and download the final version for free
from the Mac App Store this fall. Customers interested in signing up for
the public beta can visit www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/
for more details. Features are subject to change. Some features may not
be available in all regions or all languages.
*Testing conducted by Apple in May 2015 using 2.7 GHz 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.
**Testing conducted by Apple in May 2015 using 2.2 GHz Intel Core
i7-based 15-inch MacBook Pro systems with 256GB of flash storage and
16GB 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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