It also enables users to spot the pointer more easily by enlarging it by shaking the mouse or swiping a finger back and forth on the trackpad.

OS X El Capitan improves Mission Control to incorporate this feature across multiple spaces. This feature is slightly similar to, although less extensive than, the snap-assist feature in Windows 7 (and later) and several Linux desktop environments, such as GNOME. OS X El Capitan introduces new window management features such as creating a full-screen split screen limited to two app windows side by side in full screen by pressing the green button on left upper corner of the window or Control+ ⌘ Cmd+ F keyboard shortcut, then snapping any supported other window to that full screen application. Window management Īn example of the split screen view in OS X El Capitan OS X El Capitan also adopts LibreSSL in replacement of OpenSSL used in previous versions. Apple's typeface San Francisco replaces Helvetica Neue as the system typeface. OS X El Capitan supports Metal, Apple's graphics API introduced in iOS 8 to speed up performance in games and professional applications. The maximum amount of memory that could be allocated to the graphics processor has been increased from 1024 MB to 1536 MB on Macs with an Intel HD 4000 GPU. Compared to OS X Yosemite, Apple says that opening PDFs is four times faster, app switching and viewing messages in Mail is twice as fast and launching apps is 40% faster. OS X El Capitan includes features to improve the security, performance, design and usability of OS X. The upgrade varies in size depending upon which Apple Mac computer it is being installed on in most scenarios, it will require about 6 GB of disk space. The following computers support features such as Handoff, Instant Hotspot, AirDrop between Mac computers and iOS devices, as well as the new Metal API: They can only run OS X El Capitan if they have at least 2 GB of RAM. Of these computers, the following models were equipped with 1 GB RAM as the standard option on the base model when they were shipped originally. These computers can run El Capitan, provided they have at least 2 GB of RAM, with an exception: For example, Apple notes that the newly available Metal API is available on 'all Macs since 2012'. 5 Timeline of Macintosh operating systemsĪll Macintosh products that can run Mountain Lion, Mavericks, or Yosemite can run El Capitan, although not all of its features will work on older models.2.2.7 Other applications found in OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

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