OS X El Capitan

OS X El Capitan was announced on June 8, 2015 at WWDC 2015. At the presentation, a developer from Epic Games demonstrated the new Metal technology on Mac, released for iOS in 2014.

Tim Cook noted that the main idea of ​​the new OS is to add many new features and improve performance in each operating system: OS X , iOS and WatchOS .

Before Mac OS X, version 10.9 of the operating system was named after the feline family. Starting with Mac OS X 10.9 , Apple decided to name the OS X releases by location in California . So, the ninth version of the system was called Mavericks - in honor of the beach popular in surfers in California, the tenth - Yosemite - in honor of the famous reserve , and the eleventh (El Capitan) - in honor of the highest El Capitan Mountain in Yosemite National Park .

• SplitView mode, thanks to which it becomes possible to work with two applications in full screen mode (simultaneous work with multiple windows).
• Improved Spotlight Search.
• Added the ability to remove sound in Safari browser tabs.
• Safari has now added the ability to pin links to the most frequently visited resources.
• The system performance has increased, the speed of opening applications has been increased by 1.4 times, and switching between them is twice as fast.
• Metal technology has appeared on the Mac, increasing the performance of demanding applications and the speed of processing graphics at the system level.
• Disk Utility has lost a huge part of its functionality: the Debug menu has become inaccessible, the ability to mount hidden disks has disappeared.

OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or later.

• 2 GB of RAM .
• 8 GB of free space on the drive.
• Some features require an Apple ID .
• Some features require an internet connection.

Supported Computers ^[2]

• iMac (Mid 2007 or later)
• MacBook (late 2008 (aluminum), or early 2009 (plastic) or newer)
• MacBook Pro 13 " (Mid 2009 or later)
• MacBook Pro 15 " (Mid 2007 or later)
• MacBook Pro 17 " (Late 2007 or later)
• MacBook Air (end of 2008 or later)
• Mac mini (Early 2009 or later)
• Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
• Xserve (early 2009)

Some users are faced with the fact that this operating system does not appear in the App Store’s shopping list, and therefore when reinstalling the system from scratch an error appears about the temporary unavailability of this operating system in the App Store. To find this operating system using the store search is also not possible.

The way out is the point 4 "Download OS X El Capitan" of the article The procedure for upgrading to OS X El Capitan from the Apple knowledge base, which contains a direct link to this operating system in the App Store: Download El Capitan , which allows you to download the operating system, adding it to the shopping list, with subsequent installation and successful online verification, confirming the right to use this system with your account.

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• Official site Apple OS X El Capitan (Russian)
• Official site Apple OS X El Capitan (English)