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Apple Announces OS X El Capitan With Split View, Contextual Spotlight, Updated Apps and More, Launches in Fall
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I'm all for a 2 year release rotation if it means stability.
Rest assured, Apple had better have El Capitan pretty much nailed down in the first release, or 'El Cap' is quickly going to be widely known as "El CRAPitan". You know Windows users are probably already using the name.
Yep, because that all that matters. Everything announced today and that's the take away.
I'm ecstatic for the performance boost.
Well.....try this.....fascinating place.......read the whole article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Capitan
Right there with ya. Pretty amazed that its not there.
Although i would not be surprised if they make Siri part of a homekit/apple tv thing and leave the mac out of it completely to sell more devices.
I've just tried the Developer preview of the "El Capitan". I still have it installed on another partition.
First off, the animation lag is 99% gone and even on my MacBook with a 1,2 Ghz processor, everything was super smooth even during multitasking, mission control, sidebar etc. The animation lag and stuttering when multitasking was my biggest problem with this otherwise superb laptop, I'm so glad Apple fixed this with Metal.
I also tried the split screen feature, which in the developer preview at least, didn't work too well. Some applications did not adjust to the new screen size and just stopped responding. I'm sure this will get fixed eventually. But the programs that worked with this feature, worked fine and as expected. No lag here either.
Spotlight's new features did not work for me, but it must be because I'm in Finland. Even to this day, I cannot search from the web on my iPhone 6 using Spotlight. It must be the same here..
For me this upcoming OS X release is everything I've hoped for recently. Features are very good as they already are, no need to come up with new ones all the time. I'm glad Apple decided to focus on quality and making user experience better on OS X and iOS, that is how I came to love Apple products in the first place.
P.S. Safari seemed snappier.
First off, the animation lag is 99% gone and even on my MacBook with a 1,2 Ghz processor, everything was super smooth even during multitasking, mission control, sidebar etc. The animation lag and stuttering when multitasking was my biggest problem with this otherwise superb laptop, I'm so glad Apple fixed this with Metal.
I also tried the split screen feature, which in the developer preview at least, didn't work too well. Some applications did not adjust to the new screen size and just stopped responding. I'm sure this will get fixed eventually. But the programs that worked with this feature, worked fine and as expected. No lag here either.
Spotlight's new features did not work for me, but it must be because I'm in Finland. Even to this day, I cannot search from the web on my iPhone 6 using Spotlight. It must be the same here..
For me this upcoming OS X release is everything I've hoped for recently. Features are very good as they already are, no need to come up with new ones all the time. I'm glad Apple decided to focus on quality and making user experience better on OS X and iOS, that is how I came to love Apple products in the first place.
P.S. Safari seemed snappier.
Thanks for that, very informative, 10.11 sounds super promising. With regards to the animation lag being "99% gone", what exactly does that mean? Is there still dropped frames when using Mission Control or other UI animations?
There is occasional frame drops here or there during some animations, mainly during multitasking. I believe this is due to lack of processing power in the new MacBook. Honestly nothing to worry about, I just usually except perfection from a machine that cost me so, so much. Overall I'm very happy with the performance, and can't wait for this to be released.
Most boring WWDC ever, IMHO. I guess I was just so bummed about the withdrawal of Apple TV from the event that it influenced everything else. I usually say "ooohhhh, I can't wait to get that" several time during the presentation, but today I just didn't. Perhaps I'm alone
I have no idea why anyone would be disappointed about this. The tweaks that have been added are great and fixing things that have bugging me for quite some time (immovable spotlight, no split screen view, unusable fullscreen mail, horrendous rendering performance, ...). I mean there are no flashy new features, but hell, anyone who seriously uses their mac for actual work should appreciate these refinements. This will probably change the way I use my mac quite a bit.
I only wish they elaborated more on the exact nature of the performance enhancements, but I guess they had too much to cover this year.
I only wish they elaborated more on the exact nature of the performance enhancements, but I guess they had too much to cover this year.
And wrongly spelled, by the way. You can correctly call it "El Cap", or "The Captain",
but not "El Capitan". If Apple wants to be cool by being open to other languages, then please don't pretend to write other languages like if they were English. It's "El Capitán" (note the accent).
Please, Apple, we're Mac users because we like well designed things. Stop the trash. Stop it.
LOL! However El Capitan is a mountain in Yosemite right... you see what Apple did there? haha
Then why rename it? If I take my new car to the garage to have manufacturers identified faults fixed they don't rename it when I go to collect it.
Stick with an OS for a minimum of 3 years and fix the faults in the first 6 months.
That's a user point of view. But I'm a developer. So, from my point of view, an API that gets cornered into compatibility/support status is a dead API, because in the mid-term you won't be able to use it for accessing the latest hardware features. In that context, what Apple is saying today is that OpenGL and OpenCL are dead (in other words, if some future GPU supports any new feature, you can expect it implemented in Metal, not in OpenGL nor OpenCL).
A very disappointing bit about this are the users who purchased a new Mac Pro. An expensive machine, theoretically optimized for OpenCL, with expensive dual GPUs, whose degree of support under Metal is still uncertain. I'm glad I decided to wait for later generations of the Mac Pro, when the new strategies from Apple get clearer.
Regarding Vulkan, it's still unborn, just preliminary implementations, but we see Microsoft pushing for DX, and now Apple pushing for Metal. Who's going to push for Vulkan? And it didn't arrive to a public status yet.
I've read very good reviews of the internal design of Metal, although didn't use it myself yet. If it's such a good API, maybe a good approach could be to write a compatibility layer from Metal to other OSs APIs (if that's feasible to some level), and write everything in Metal.
Because I develop for Mac, but also for other OSs. I know Apple wants us to target Apple products only, and the new API strategies from Apple clearly show their will, but sorry Apple, we'll still develop for other OSs too (you know, no OS stays forever, and well designed software surpases OSs lifetime).
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I'm guessing a lot of new Mac users won't understand or immediately get the legacy that Apple has with the names Yosemite and El Capitan - they were used as internal codes for machines going right back to the very first PowerMac G4... actually, was El Capitan even the name for the blue and white PowerMac G3?
Of course, I'm looking forward to OS X 10.12 "Yikes!"
Of course, I'm looking forward to OS X 10.12 "Yikes!"
El Capitan is a great name.
This is brand name of one of finest Mac computers of PowerPC era, Blue&White G3 350. I have such fond memories of that computers, which originally came with 64mb of RAM, 350 mhz G3 and ATI Rage video card, and (coincidence!) with OS 9.1. This was a second desktop mac which I bought and I was super excited. For its time, its was fast, solid and was incredibly good for photoshop and illustrator, my main work apps of the time. It came with Firewire, Ethernet, USB. MS Office for Mac (2001) flew on the machine.
The computer lasted for almost 10 years, with incremental updates such as RAM, Radeon card, IDE PCI card, DVD drive, faster and bigger hard drives, and CPU upgrade to 800 mHz. I got OS X and later versions. Great time, great memories, great computer, great name!
This is brand name of one of finest Mac computers of PowerPC era, Blue&White G3 350. I have such fond memories of that computers, which originally came with 64mb of RAM, 350 mhz G3 and ATI Rage video card, and (coincidence!) with OS 9.1. This was a second desktop mac which I bought and I was super excited. For its time, its was fast, solid and was incredibly good for photoshop and illustrator, my main work apps of the time. It came with Firewire, Ethernet, USB. MS Office for Mac (2001) flew on the machine.
The computer lasted for almost 10 years, with incremental updates such as RAM, Radeon card, IDE PCI card, DVD drive, faster and bigger hard drives, and CPU upgrade to 800 mHz. I got OS X and later versions. Great time, great memories, great computer, great name!