My old 2007 iMac runs great with it and 4Gb of RAM. I don’t know if it ever ran this smoothly before. No glitches whatsoever with the instal other than it took 5 hours with our crappy internet service.
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OS X El Capitan, the latest version of the Mac operating system, builds on the groundbreaking features and beautiful design introduced in OS X Yosemite, refining the experience and improving performance in lots of ways that you’ll enjoy everyday.
Make the most of your screen with Split View.
• Focus on two apps at once – neatly arranged side by side — in full screen without distractions.
Take control of your desktop with Mission Control.
• View all your open windows in a single layer with no overlap, so you can instantly find that window you’re looking for.
• Create a new desktop space easily by dragging a window to the top of your screen.
Smarter search in Spotlight.
• Search for weather, stocks, sports, web video, and transit information right in Spotlight.
• Use your own words to search for files on your Mac, like “Documents I edited yesterday.”
• Resize the Spotlight window and move it anywhere on the screen.
Handy improvements in Mail.
• Use your trackpad to manage your inbox with a swipe, just like on iPhone. Swipe right to mark as read or unread, or swipe left to delete.
• Mail automatically suggests contacts and events from your messages to help you keep your Contacts and Calendar organized.
• An improved full-screen view lets you switch between your inbox and your draft email messages.
A simple and powerful all-new Notes app.
• Format your notes with titles, paragraph headings, bullets, numbers, and checklists.
• Save rich content like photos, videos, documents, PDFs, web links, and map locations.
• Easily search and browse the content from all your notes in the Attachments Browser.
• Add content to a note directly from other OS X apps using the Share menu.
• Create notes on your Mac and they’ll automatically sync to your iOS devices using iCloud.
New ways to organize and enhance your images in Photos.
• Photos automatically organizes your library and helps you edit like a pro with simple and powerful editing tools.
• Access your library on all your devices with iCloud Photo Library.
• Add or edit location data, and batch change titles, descriptions, and keywords.
• Sort your albums and the photos in them by date, title, and more.
• Use third-party editing extensions to take your photo editing to the next level.
Better surfing in Safari.
• Keep your favorite websites open, up to date, and easily accessible with Pinned Sites.
• Choose a font and theme for Reader, including Sepia and Night themes.
• Mute web page audio from the Smart Search field.
Maps, now with Transit view.
• See transit lines and stations for select cities, including subway, train, bus, and ferry routes.
• Plan your trip based on when you want to leave or arrive.
• Research your trip on your Mac and share it to your iPhone or iPad for use on the go.
New fonts.
• Designed for Retina displays, beautiful system font San Francisco is crisp, clear and space efficient.
• PingFang (苹方), the new Chinese system font, is designed for crisp readability in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
• Hiragana Sans, the Japanese system font, now features additional weights.
• Four new Japanese fonts let you add a personal touch to documents and presentations.
Improved input methods for Chinese and Japanese.
• Type Chinese more quickly with an improved character prediction engine and a smarter candidate window.
• Write multiple Chinese characters using the trackpad and the new, roomier Trackpad window.
• Live conversion automatically transforms Hiragana into written Japanese as you type.
Faster graphics with Metal.
• Enjoy faster, more efficient system-level graphics rendering.
• Experience a richer, more immersive gaming experience.
• Create content more quickly with accelerated high-performance apps.
Snappier performance for everyday tasks.
• Launch apps and switch between them more quickly.
• Access email and render PDFs more quickly.
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Make the most of your screen with Split View.
• Focus on two apps at once – neatly arranged side by side — in full screen without distractions.
Take control of your desktop with Mission Control.
• View all your open windows in a single layer with no overlap, so you can instantly find that window you’re looking for.
• Create a new desktop space easily by dragging a window to the top of your screen.
Smarter search in Spotlight.
• Search for weather, stocks, sports, web video, and transit information right in Spotlight.
• Use your own words to search for files on your Mac, like “Documents I edited yesterday.”
• Resize the Spotlight window and move it anywhere on the screen.
Handy improvements in Mail.
• Use your trackpad to manage your inbox with a swipe, just like on iPhone. Swipe right to mark as read or unread, or swipe left to delete.
• Mail automatically suggests contacts and events from your messages to help you keep your Contacts and Calendar organized.
• An improved full-screen view lets you switch between your inbox and your draft email messages.
A simple and powerful all-new Notes app.
• Format your notes with titles, paragraph headings, bullets, numbers, and checklists.
• Save rich content like photos, videos, documents, PDFs, web links, and map locations.
• Easily search and browse the content from all your notes in the Attachments Browser.
• Add content to a note directly from other OS X apps using the Share menu.
• Create notes on your Mac and they’ll automatically sync to your iOS devices using iCloud.
New ways to organize and enhance your images in Photos.
• Photos automatically organizes your library and helps you edit like a pro with simple and powerful editing tools.
• Access your library on all your devices with iCloud Photo Library.
• Add or edit location data, and batch change titles, descriptions, and keywords.
• Sort your albums and the photos in them by date, title, and more.
• Use third-party editing extensions to take your photo editing to the next level.
Better surfing in Safari.
• Keep your favorite websites open, up to date, and easily accessible with Pinned Sites.
• Choose a font and theme for Reader, including Sepia and Night themes.
• Mute web page audio from the Smart Search field.
Maps, now with Transit view.
• See transit lines and stations for select cities, including subway, train, bus, and ferry routes.
• Plan your trip based on when you want to leave or arrive.
• Research your trip on your Mac and share it to your iPhone or iPad for use on the go.
New fonts.
• Designed for Retina displays, beautiful system font San Francisco is crisp, clear and space efficient.
• PingFang (苹方), the new Chinese system font, is designed for crisp readability in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
• Hiragana Sans, the Japanese system font, now features additional weights.
• Four new Japanese fonts let you add a personal touch to documents and presentations.
Improved input methods for Chinese and Japanese.
• Type Chinese more quickly with an improved character prediction engine and a smarter candidate window.
• Write multiple Chinese characters using the trackpad and the new, roomier Trackpad window.
• Live conversion automatically transforms Hiragana into written Japanese as you type.
Faster graphics with Metal.
• Enjoy faster, more efficient system-level graphics rendering.
• Experience a richer, more immersive gaming experience.
• Create content more quickly with accelerated high-performance apps.
Snappier performance for everyday tasks.
• Launch apps and switch between them more quickly.
• Access email and render PDFs more quickly.
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Application availability
Available in countries
| Country | Price |
|---|---|
| USA | free |
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MacDesktop,Reviews
Works great in ’07 iMac
The ugliest and useles OS X
When, during the el capitan launch, the most important thing to mention is the mouse pointer getting bigger it’s clear that the OS is absolutely rubbish and their devs just don’t care anymore. The design is meh. they tried to reinvent the wheel and the call it flat design, whatever that is! The result - everything seems washed out and there is no visible improvement. Connecting to an external Apple monitor, the fonts seem pixelated, even with the smooth font option on. The dock design is ugly and the old one seem to better differentiate the app icons. Went back to an old machine with Mavericks and man that design still looks good, better than the current. The OS hangs for me - like something is running awry on main thread - good job, Apple developers! When watching a movie on iTunes, trying to move back and forth by clicking on the progress bar makes the dock pop up on top the movie. The transparency is something that is consuming a lot of energy. Switching it off vastly improved my battery life. Why do Apple thinks is a good idea to waste energy, didn’t they like to show off that they care about environment? Overall is a bad experience and it seems to me that Apple needs to a new direction.
Crashing!
Ever since I have updated my computer to El Capitan, my computer has constantly crashed and shut down. There have not been any other application or downloads that I have that are causing this and my roomate is experiencing the exact same issues as well. Do not update your computer to this software until all of these problems have been resolved. It makes productivity very slow and difficult for school.
Incompatible with Mac CS5 and Win 7, Java issues
This is a 2015 macbook pro running Win 7 with a very old version of java required for access to FDA sites (yes, I have to fight off java’s updates everytime I log on). I also have Adobe CS5 package which requires a legacy java installation. Unable to install this legacy java as the java installation see the java for Win 7. Bottom line is that I had to unstall El Capitan via my restore copy. Let me know when the legacy jave installation function on El Capitan is improved so it doesn’t see the Win version.
It won’t even download
So I’m having trouble with my macbook pro - it’s only about 2 years old and the cursor keeps freezing up. All I can do is force a shutdown, as I suddenly am unable to click or type anything. So I figured I should update my Yosemite to El Capitan. But lo! I can’t even get the app to download. Sigh.
So far, so good
I wanted to give the El Capitan upgrade 4.5 stars because I had an issue with Safari immediately after the installation was complete. Safari kept freezing as soon as I tried to visit any website. I looked up the issue and saw that it could be resolved by deselecting “Safari Suggestions” in the “Smart Search Field” portion under the Search tab in the Preferences section. The freezing immediately stopped and since then I’ve had no issues, which is why I opted for 5 stars instead of 4. To give background on my Mac, I have a 15” Macbook Pro (mid-2012), 4GB Memory. I bought it in December 2012. I’d never upgraded from my original Lion 10.7.5 OS. Up until around July 2015 it ran beautifully, but then I started noticing that it would load media-heavy websites slower than usual and I’d see the spinning wheel more and more. Plus I could no longer upgrade Safari and Youtube, and Twitter defaulted me to some weird text version of the site. I read that upgrading the OS would likely solve these issues, but I saw so many negative reviews that I was scared to do it. Finally, I had enough of it being sluggish and took a chance. Aside from the issue I mentioned above, I’m thrilled with the upgrade! It runs like it did when I first purchased it with no issues on media-heavy sites. I’m still getting used to the features so I can’t report on all the perks, but so far I feel that I’ve lost nothing and gained a computer that runs like new again, which was my primary goal. Everything (USB ports, apps, etc) work like before and all of my files (and even my passwords saved on various websites) were saved (I did back up my files prior to upgrading, just in case). As someone else mentioned, maybe I got lucky. But I wanted to add my 2 cents because it was the recent positive reviews that encouraged me to give it a try. So far, I couldn’t be happier that I did.
Stuck on “Paused"
Tried to download this update a few weeks ago. It has been stuck on “pause” in my launchpad since then. I am unable to do anything now. IF IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT
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