

(iOS 9 brings the same capability to iPads.)Īs someone who is almost always working with two or more apps, this could become a very useful feature. With Split View, OS X finally gets a feature that’s been available through third-party apps for years: Automatically splitting the window to display two apps side-by-side on today’s much larger displays.

But it was up to you to arrange those windows. And even on the itty bitty 9″ 512 x 342 pixel displays of those compact early Macs, it was possible to view open windows from two or more apps at the same time.

Split ViewĮver since System 7, Macs have been able to run more than one program at a time. Each renders some things better than the other.

Apple claims draw calls are up to 10x faster than in Yosemite, and also that web pages will render 40% faster.Īrs Technica has compared Metal with OpenGL and found decidedly mixed results that are very dependent on your graphics hardware. On the gaming front, there’s Metal, a core graphics technology that gives programmers better access to a graphics card’s capabilities. Let’s take a look at what’s new! More SpeedĪpple claims El Capitan does nearly everything faster than earlier versions of OS X, with apps launching up to 40% faster, app switching twice as fast, and Preview displaying a PDF four times as fast. Best of all, El Capitan runs on the same Macs that support OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, or 10.10 Yosemite. With OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Apple continues its annual march to newer, better, more powerful versions of Mac OS X. According to Greg Hrutkay of Hrutkay Mods ( see warning video), it breaks boot.efi on the 20 Mac Pros that have been thus updated. WARNING: If you have updated boot.efi on a MacPro1,1 or MacPro2,1 so you can run Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, DO NOT INSTALL SECURITY UPDATE 2018-001.
