![]() Especially the beautifully svelte and almost iPad like 12-inch Retina Macbook. Being blunt, on an iMac, having just two apps open side-by-side on a 21-inch display seems, to me, like a waste of space. I can already resize windows to sit next to each other on the Mac, and I’m not stuck in the limited full-screen view, or with just two apps on the go. It works, just as smoothly and intuitively as it does on the iPad, but I never use it. You can have Mail and Safari together, or Notes and Maps. Apps need to be updated to support this, so for now it pretty much just works with the built-in programmes. It works like this: Once you open up app into full-screen mode, and jump into Mission Control – which has also been updated – you can drag another full-screen app into the initial app and have them sit side-by-side. I love the implementation on the iPad – it’s sleek and fast – but I’m a little baffled by it on the Mac. Being able to run two apps simultaneously is a feature that Apple’s slates have been missing for years, but the company has also brought a similar feature to OS X. Multitasking is a headline feature in this year’s iOS update. OS X El Capitan – Split-screen and Improved Mission Control ![]() It’s things like this that make me always stick with OS X. It sounds odd, and almost gimmicky, but I use it everyday. Well, new might be pushing it a bit, as it looks the same, but give it a quick wiggle with your mouse or trackpad and it’ll instantly magnify, saving you from hunting for it amongst all your open windows. It looks great on Macs with a high-res display, but unlike the wispy, thin font from last year, it looks much better on older Mac displays now too.Īnother nice, albeit minor, design flourish is the new cursor. The new font is ever so slightly larger – to my eyes anyway – and marginally wider. While the difference on the iPhone is minimal – mainly because all compatible phones boast a Retina display – there’s certainly a noticeable improvement on the Mac. Just like on iOS 9, El Capitan now uses San Francisco as the default, system-wide font. It looks great, even a year on, so it’s not really a surprise little has changed in El Capitan. Everything, from the icons, to the finder and Apple’s pre-installed apps got a fresh coat of frosty paint. It lifted the sheen, the transparency effects and the ‘modern’ look from iOS. Last year’s Yosemite was a huge shift in the way OS X looked. Related: El Capitan trips, tricks and secret features ![]() Including: iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer). OS X 10.11 El Capitan is free to download and compatible with all Macs that supported 10.10 Yosemite. Though, I’m starting to feel Apple’s insistence on bringing lots of iOS influenced features to the Mac is taking the OS in the wrong direction. With just a smattering of ‘obvious’ new features and visual upgrades to keep the masses happy. It’s like the ‘S’ upgrade cycle on iPhones – same on the outside, tuned up on the inside. ![]() It has, to this day, been the best version of OS X.Įl Capitan tries, with varying amounts of success, to repeat this. But it worked that little bit faster, had less bugs and felt like a product that was really ‘complete’. On the surface everything looked the same. A few years ago, Apple released an update to its then current Mac operating system called Snow Leopard.
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