Mail also offers a new full-screen view, which lets you work on an email, then slide it to the bottom of the screen so you can check your inbox, before switching back to the message you’re drafting.Īdditionally, Mail now features tabs, similar to those in Safari. Mail adds some swipe gestures, so you can use your trackpad and mark messages as Read or Unread, or move them to the trash, the same way you do on an iOS device. You can quickly add suggested events to Calendar, and suggested contacts to Contacts. OS X El Capitan includes a few useful additions to Mail.
So if you’re used to doing this with, say, your laptop in the living room, it’ll be a lot smoother.Īnd you can easily mute tabs that play videos, including those annoying auto-play videos that sneak up on you. Safari can now send any web video to an Apple TV, instead of mirroring your display. Click one of these buttons, and the page opens, but you can keep it active in the background, taking up hardly any space in the tab bar. Pinned Site, for instance, will allow you to store favorite sites at the top-left of the tab bar. OS X El Capitan brings some useful additions to the Safari web browser. Apple claims that OS X El Capitan will be faster than Yosemite, notably in app launch, app switching, email display, and PDF opening in Preview:įurthermore, graphics display - through Metal, a graphics core technology - will not only speed up the display of complex graphics, but also use less power.
We’re used to a new operating system being slower than the previous version, but as we saw with Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion - two versions of OS X that took the same tack as El Capitan, enhancing rather than loading on lots of new features - this isn’t always the case. This means that 2007 iMacs, 2008 MacBook Airs, 2009 Mac minis, 2007 MacBook Pros, and 2008 Mac Pros can all run OS X 10.11. OS X El Capitan has pretty simply system requirements: Any Mac capable of running Yosemite can run El Capitan. System Requirements and Speed ImprovementsĮvery new operating system his limits, often related to which hardware you need to run it. Here’s what we know so far about OS X El Capitan. As such, this new version of OS X won’t have dozens of new features, but does have some notable additions. Called OS X El Capitan (named after a mountain in the Yosemite National Park), this operating system is going to build on OS X Yosemite without adding lots of new features.Īs many Mac users had hoped, Apple seems to be focusing on getting things to work better, faster, and to improve battery life for laptops, rather than adding features that slow things down, and, in some cases, don’t work very well. Apple + Recommended OS X 10.11 El Capitan: What Mac Users Need to KnowĪpple announced the next version of its desktop operating system at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) this week.
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