OK, then refer to it as 10.11. What I can't take seriously is anyone that takes issue with a damn code name for SW. Your focus should be on whether the OS suits your needs, not whether you disagree with that the use of a Spanish term, a famous rock formation, or whatever reason you may have.
1) My guess is Apple's new code names that are all visually stunning points of interest/locations in CA are simply to bring awareness. My assumption with their first choice being Mavericks is that they weren't going to pick official location names like cities or national parks, but use names that are quasi-official or simply colloquial. Mavericks and El Capitan are good choices in that since as many having already some familiarity with the Yosemite National Park (although I have to wonder how many in the world saw it and pronounced it |yo-semite| or |yo-sa-mite|)
2) They don't do this with iOS which has a much larger draw, so why continue this trend with Mac OS X? Even watchOS will likely outnumber Mac users in a few years. I wonder if the name is simply based on whatever impressive image they wish to use for their default desktop background. If that's the case that's a pretty weak reasoning for the nomenclature. But, again, it's just a naming convention so the real focus should be on whether the OS is worthwhile to the user or not.
Something 99% of people in the world have never heard about in their life, and they just see "the captain" in Spanish with no apparent reason for that choice and have a laugh.
I see your point, but let's not be ignorant about it--- the world is very different right now and has been for years from a time where that would be considered a bad thing. You're writing about lively people that are just like you as if you know their worth.
You should understand that for anyone living outside the US (probably most of the people living outside of California) the name is a joke. Also, if product names weren't important you wouldn't have so much money and effort put into this.
If the name sounds like a joke you're very likely to consider the product as some sort of joke. Ok, Apple can afford this since the name is tied to the MacOS brand and also it's not like most users have much of a choice or wide selection of products.
But I bet you have avoided plenty of products because of the name and that you laughed at some. It's hard to take this name serious regardless of the landmark it refers to.
Just curious what your opinion is about Lollipop... or JellyBean... or Ice Cream Sandwich. Android names in general are making fun at the use of names for OS versions. Regardless if they are keeping the names in a specific genre.
I also saw El Capitan and thought it was a poor name choice, but that's less of Apple's fault and more of the Mariposa Batallion, which named it 2 centuries ago. It's a fairly well known structure in Yosemite. It's the people that are quick to judge and maybe not well-traveled that seem to have an issue with it.
Always intersting tht americans think that USA is the center of the world. They also most of the times think that everyone else should know so much about locations and names in US. Being well-travelled doesn´t even have to involve the US. There are plenty of other countries and places to visit and still be considered "well-travelled".
For me, I had not heard about El Capitan before Apple mentioned it and I then googled it.
Its marketing. And its a stupid name. Sure it might be good and function well but it still has (in my opinion) a stupid name. People aren't going to see some california landmark they are going to see 'the captain'.
Even referring it to 10.11 doesn't make sense because 10.2 to 10.9 is technically newer than 10.11. Maybe if they called them 10.01, 10.02 and so forth... right?
No. Why assume that it's a decimal point that denotes tenths and hundredths? Do you also do that when you see a date written 2015.06.15 or an IP address 192.168.0.1? Of course you don't, so don't do it with version numbers.
What I find strange that I have noticed on a number of sites is the lack of community excitement about apple announcements this past couple of months.
There used to be an huge list of comments for everything apple related but articles regarding the watch are dead and any comments section post the latest wwdc have been so quiet it is sounding. The live blog from last week for instance had so few comments the review of the Lumia 640 had 10x as many comments.
10times as many comments on a dull low end phone compared to one of the few major events that the"coolest" tech companies in the world.
Even for an european like myself, I find the name El Capitan to make good sense. The jump from Mountain Lion to Mavericks, was pretty big and also the jump to Yosemite. With OS X 10.11 , the difference is not that big from Yosemite, so Apple decided to stay "inside" Yosemite, so to speak, to show, that this was not a major update, and name it El Capitan ! very simple, and very clever, if you ask me :-)
Seriously? So many comments on a name? I don't care of they call a release of their OS "Maha Rajah", it's what is inside that matters. And for that matter, don't all the people so affected by this name realize how silly "Apple" itself sounds for a technology company? Why care so much about names?
No judgement over it, people can't keep track of why they think what they think all of the time about every thing, that kind of filter would drive a person crazy.
Anyway, just be aware that the only reason it sounds weird is because of word association.
There nothing dumb about the OS named after a rock formation in Yosemite. Translated "the chief" What is dumb is mid-2012 13" Macbook Pro listed at $1099 in the Apple store in June 15, 2015!
Either way it is just OSX. Nothing super special. Maybe when they release a version that runs on all their devices instead of that watered down baby OS that is iOS then it would be interesting?
It depends if you're specifically translating from the Spanish term or referring to the actual Ahwahnechee name. Either way it means theo ne who is the leader or ruler.
I'm not an Apple user. I have however spent a significant time in Yosemite and have seen El Capitan in person (no, I didn't scale it. sorry if that kills my cred). It's breathtaking. I approve the name. :D
The model we have is the base model, so it doesn't include a dGPU. Not that there's much to say about Cape Verde that we haven't already said in the last three years.
We know the architecture, sure, but I was more interested in the relative performance of that part compared to the 750M, it seems weird that in the same thermal constraints they went with a lower performance per watt part, and claim 70% gaming improvement.
Cause they're by far the biggest manufacturer of premium laptops, tablets and smartphones?
Apple got around 90% of the +600$ smartphone market and over 80% of the +1000$ computer market.
That means that they're a huge part of the industry, and even the people who exclusively use 500$ HP laptops, such as perhaps yourself, are affected by their products and decisions.
That is vastly wrong. Apple has, of all the PCs sold, 13% market share roughly. They do not have 80% of the $1000+ laptop market as there are more options available from PC than there are from Apple.
And Apple doesn't do anything for design nor are PCs run by their decisions. If they were we would all be using Firewire instead of USB. Half the time their products are behind the PCs in the latest technology.
You use USB because Apple pushed hard that standard with the original iMac.
FireWire? FireWire is an IEEE standard.
And speaking about IEEE standards, Apple was on the first to push WiFi as a standard, with their consumer AirPort base stations, and AirPort interface cards, that came standard in most models, and turned 802.11 in a standard.
Just because you are not a professional, doesn't mean that other people don't use professional standards...
For example, the relatively cheap, FireWire connected, iSight camera was a staple in computer vision applications in mid-2000s, because it was cheap, and had much less lag, much better frame rate, much better, uncompressed image than any USB camera
Firewire was a lot better than USB, except with Windows XP thanks to Microsoft's purposefully bad driver.
And, had Apple not chosen to start using Intel hardware, Firewire would be really fast today. There are a bunch of faster versions that were in planning and development.
While I agree that it needs to be covered, your reasoning is a bit specious.
1) the smart phone market share doesn't mean anything at all when talking about OSX and mentioning it is just a red herring. 2) Simply being dominant in a certain market doesn't necessarily make you a HUGE part of an industry. Apple is certainly an important part of the market and they are a dominant force in the $1000+ market but have you ever looked at what their overall share of the PC market is? 15% in the US? Half of that world wide. Apple's total market share is smaller than the INDIVIDUAL market share of several of the WinPC vendors (HP, DELL, Lenovo, etc).
This needed to be covered simply because it is an update to the largest retail OS not named Windows and Apple is a media juggernaut that would get covered even if they started making toilet seats. Please don't try to delude people into believing that it has anything to do with iPhones or how few PC's Apple can push over a certain arbitrary price point.
Based on 2014 PC shipments, according to both IDC or Garnter, Apple's market share is 6% (up by 1% from 10 years ago).
Additionally, from Consumer Reports 2015 buying guide, of the 25 computers rated, the best Apple best only placed 9th out of the 25, which was significantly, overall 20 points lower than their top pick (i.e. Dell).
Based on Apple's 2015 hardware and software offerings, it appears that their market share will fall back into the 4 - 5% of range.
Numbers are skewed, they don't take into account for 'personal sales' vs 'sales on the whole' (aka personal sales AND business sales). The majority of my friends, family, and co-workers own a Mac for their personal use. 100% of them use PCs in their workplace. If Apple wasn't selling enough computers for personal use they obviously would not be making a profit and year after year selling MILLIONS of Macs.
If you're interested in a toaster, Consumer Reports is a reasonable source. If you're discussing anything related to consumer electronics, they are demonstrably incompetent. As an example, a professional photographer isn't going to consult CR for their next purchase and the evaluation criteria CR uses for products is often bizarre.
Ryan[//b] I'm all for supporting AT through ads - but this page is somewhat unreadable from the left side - the seasonic ad is eating into the main article borders
I know OS engineers warm their hearts by the idea of the Grand Unified Search interface where you do and find everything, but I really wish they would stop trying to actually do it. Look, when I'm trying to find a document or email on my computer, I don't want every page from the web showing up in my results. And if I'm interested in finding things on the web, good lord, I can click or command-tab my bloody browser open just as fast as open spotlight, and guess what, then I'm already ready to view the pages too!
(Apologies for going off-topic here, I know we're only supposed to talk about the name..)
That's how all contemporary operating systems are designed. They sell it under "fast and convenient file search". In reality it's "faster, more convenient profiling".
I'm glad to see OSX finally getting a feature we'd seen in Windows 7. Not having a quick way to get the most out of your screen is painfully pre-2010. Do want dynamic resizing combined with the ability to put things in corners from Win 10 so the OS itself has a less flaky version of LG's screen split app that they bundle with their ultrawides.
Expose is a fancy graphical skin on something that can be accomplished with alt-tab or a quick click to the bottom of the tray. Snap is a real pain to accomplish manually. Multiple desktops is meanwhile one quick trip to sysinternals away.
Snap as implemented in Windows is extremely basic in functionality and clearly pales in comparison to what Apple is doing with full screen mode and mission control. Window's snap is a simple hack at best.
But Windows has long had the oppressive modality of individual windows trying to dominate the screen. The Mac OS has had much less modal solutions like windowshade and resize, over the years.
I'm not sure what you mean. One of the things I've always find especially irritating about Windows is how they try to take over so much screen real estate. They're much less refined than something like the Mac OS 9 experience using windowshade, for instance.
OS X has made the experience a bit clunkier although it is easier to preview large amounts of media files, especially pictures, with the column view Finder.
Alright, Ryan. I usually really enjoy reading your works, and you're often really well informed, but it's evident that you don't really use OS X. This article is quite uninformed about Notes, and Photos. Folders for Notes has always existed (at least since Mavericks, but I think always), and rich text editing has also been there for a very long time. The app itself didn't have any UI for the text formatting, but it was very possible to change font, style, etc. by for instance copying text from Pages. Command + and command - also increases or decreases size, and cmd b, cmd i, and cmd u does what you'd expect from a text editor.
Photos has had face detection since version 1, and though it may be improved, it has always been there, and has been a part of iPhoto for a long time as well. I'm on 10.10.4, and all the features I've mentioned are present here as well.
It sounds to me that they still didn't do any work at the technological foundation of the OS, which is fairly outdated compared to even current BSDs. Still focused only on flashy things.
There's never been an OS X release that didn't make improvements to the technological foundation of the OS. And obviously OS X's foundation covers a hell of a lot more than just the BSD layer. Do you really think this preview is a comprehensive list of all of the changes?
I am very happy with the initial release. The window management is much more polished than Windows in my opinion. The OS has consistently improved with very little fault.
Also, the name is fine. Apple's campus is in the United States, so if you don't know what El Capitan is, I understand. However, that doesn't mean it should be written off because you have never heard of it. That is what a search engine is for.
I really hope they fix the performance issue I have with Yosemite. My 2013 MacBook Air have been fast and perfectly fine until Yosemite came out.
It had 10 seconds boot time before and after I got Maverics, and launched applications pretty fast of my opinion.
When I got Yosemite it suddenly had a boot time of 1 MINUTE (62 seconds)!! Holy crap! I just could not believe an ssd could boot a os so incredible slow! I installed further updates of the os but still the same problem. Launching applications was a bit slower, but the os boot time was the main difference.
I just sitting here with a sad face and regretting that I did not do a Maverics Time Machine backup. :,( Now it is quite a bit more stress for me to get back to Maverics. So I really hope That El Capitan would fix the issue.
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whyso - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Dumbest OS name I've every heard. Personally I can't take it seriously.solipsism - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
OK, then refer to it as 10.11. What I can't take seriously is anyone that takes issue with a damn code name for SW. Your focus should be on whether the OS suits your needs, not whether you disagree with that the use of a Spanish term, a famous rock formation, or whatever reason you may have.retrospooty - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
LOL. He is probably thinking of something more like Zorro and less like the massive granite formation in Yosemite. - Inigo Montoya would be proud.solipsism - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
1) My guess is Apple's new code names that are all visually stunning points of interest/locations in CA are simply to bring awareness. My assumption with their first choice being Mavericks is that they weren't going to pick official location names like cities or national parks, but use names that are quasi-official or simply colloquial. Mavericks and El Capitan are good choices in that since as many having already some familiarity with the Yosemite National Park (although I have to wonder how many in the world saw it and pronounced it |yo-semite| or |yo-sa-mite|)2) They don't do this with iOS which has a much larger draw, so why continue this trend with Mac OS X? Even watchOS will likely outnumber Mac users in a few years. I wonder if the name is simply based on whatever impressive image they wish to use for their default desktop background. If that's the case that's a pretty weak reasoning for the nomenclature. But, again, it's just a naming convention so the real focus should be on whether the OS is worthwhile to the user or not.
StormyParis - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
to harp on the "designed in California" they're using to glamour up the "made in China" they're forced to put on their products.Murloc - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
oh so that's what it is.Something 99% of people in the world have never heard about in their life, and they just see "the captain" in Spanish with no apparent reason for that choice and have a laugh.
Alexey291 - Saturday, June 20, 2015 - link
Pretty much. To most people (unless they had it explained to them - which in itself is stupid) it sounds like Apple has gone Mexican all of a suddenShinzo Abe - Sunday, July 5, 2015 - link
I see your point, but let's not be ignorant about it--- the world is very different right now and has been for years from a time where that would be considered a bad thing. You're writing about lively people that are just like you as if you know their worth.close - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
You should understand that for anyone living outside the US (probably most of the people living outside of California) the name is a joke. Also, if product names weren't important you wouldn't have so much money and effort put into this.If the name sounds like a joke you're very likely to consider the product as some sort of joke. Ok, Apple can afford this since the name is tied to the MacOS brand and also it's not like most users have much of a choice or wide selection of products.
But I bet you have avoided plenty of products because of the name and that you laughed at some. It's hard to take this name serious regardless of the landmark it refers to.
Murloc - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
thisMichael Bay - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
They are just taking after Canonical and their cringeworthy OS release codename tradition.vol7ron - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
Just curious what your opinion is about Lollipop... or JellyBean... or Ice Cream Sandwich. Android names in general are making fun at the use of names for OS versions. Regardless if they are keeping the names in a specific genre.I also saw El Capitan and thought it was a poor name choice, but that's less of Apple's fault and more of the Mariposa Batallion, which named it 2 centuries ago. It's a fairly well known structure in Yosemite. It's the people that are quick to judge and maybe not well-traveled that seem to have an issue with it.
Alexey291 - Saturday, June 20, 2015 - link
By not well travelled you mean 'people who don't know every damn landmark in a foreign country'?If so then yeah I'm not well travelled. I don't know the name of every rock in every country on earth
hanssonrickard - Saturday, June 20, 2015 - link
Always intersting tht americans think that USA is the center of the world.They also most of the times think that everyone else should know so much about locations and names in US.
Being well-travelled doesn´t even have to involve the US. There are plenty of other countries and places to visit and still be considered "well-travelled".
For me, I had not heard about El Capitan before Apple mentioned it and I then googled it.
Rod_Serling_Lives - Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - link
You took a comment where the word choice wasn't the best and produced a response that is just as ignorant. Kudos to you!whyso - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Its marketing. And its a stupid name. Sure it might be good and function well but it still has (in my opinion) a stupid name. People aren't going to see some california landmark they are going to see 'the captain'.melgross - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Ok, we get it, you've got a bug up your ass about it, now leave it alone.jameskatt - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
Windows is a stupid name. It can't even be trademarked.Oxford Guy - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
And the new Finder icon is terrible.shabby - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Even referring it to 10.11 doesn't make sense because 10.2 to 10.9 is technically newer than 10.11.Maybe if they called them 10.01, 10.02 and so forth... right?
solipsism - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
No. Why assume that it's a decimal point that denotes tenths and hundredths? Do you also do that when you see a date written 2015.06.15 or an IP address 192.168.0.1? Of course you don't, so don't do it with version numbers.Gigaplex - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
"Do you also do that when you see a date written 2015.06.15"Well, considering you wrote 06 instead of 6, your point was lost in the example...
heffeque - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
Poor shabby. So much ignorance...Murloc - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
not a decimal number.Also most people call this Mac OS X 11 and stuff so it's even clearer that it's not a decimal.
Shinzo Abe - Sunday, July 5, 2015 - link
California. Florida. Same cloth.nathanddrews - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
As though any Mac user will even know?Wooloomooloo - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Well it's a good job you're not a climber then...the_saltminer - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Sorry. Lollipop is the dumbest OS name ever heard. Hands down.KoolAidMan1 - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Lollipop, Eclair, Donut, Froyo, KitKat, all dumb.Terrible operating systems to boot, woof
Gigaplex - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
It's an improvement over Ice Cream Sandwich.Oxford Guy - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
Ubuntu has a bunch of stupid names, too, as I recall.nils_ - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
One of the best names however is Fedora 17, Beefy Miracle. Oh and the current Linux Kernel has the Name Hurr Durr I'ma Sheep.jimbo2779 - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
What I find strange that I have noticed on a number of sites is the lack of community excitement about apple announcements this past couple of months.There used to be an huge list of comments for everything apple related but articles regarding the watch are dead and any comments section post the latest wwdc have been so quiet it is sounding. The live blog from last week for instance had so few comments the review of the Lumia 640 had 10x as many comments.
10times as many comments on a dull low end phone compared to one of the few major events that the"coolest" tech companies in the world.
Dumb OS name aside something is happening here.
jeffkibuule - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
There aren't a bunch of consumer whiz-bang features. A dip in excitement level is to be expected.pogostick - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Perhaps they didn't renew one of their marketing contracts.JimK85 - Wednesday, July 8, 2015 - link
tech goes in cycles and lots of things in the Apple ecosphere is getting long in the tooth.ViewRoyal - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
"Dumbest OS name I've every heard. Personally I can't take it seriously."Thank you for your insightful comment.
The world is waiting and very interested to hear what other things peeve you personally... Not!
nerdstalker - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Still a better name than OS X Rancho Cucamonga! So, it is something. \_(ツ)_/¯dj_aris - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
Until the next even dumber name. I couldn't help but think of "Yosemite Sam" last year.Murloc - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
this, just name it after other animals if you've used up the big cats...What next, El Mayor? El Teniente?
Jespervangsj - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
Even for an european like myself, I find the name El Capitan to make good sense. The jump from Mountain Lion to Mavericks, was pretty big and also the jump to Yosemite. With OS X 10.11 , the difference is not that big from Yosemite, so Apple decided to stay "inside" Yosemite, so to speak, to show, that this was not a major update, and name it El Capitan ! very simple, and very clever, if you ask me :-)gremlin76 - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
No that honor goes to whatever Ubuntu or Fedora is using for their codename at the moment.Examples - Precise Pangolin, Quantal Quetzal, Beefy Miracle...
Oxford Guy - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
Ooo... beefy miracle... really?(Cue Gil Chesterton eyebrow raise)
I wonder what Deb would say about that.
nils_ - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
Beefy Miracle was Fedora. Utopic Unicorn is the current version. The point is probably that these are so silly they're easy to remember.Samus - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
This is as blatant an attempt for Apple to get Hispanic buyers as it is for Jeb Bush to gloat he is bilingual on stage.../sarcasm?
Oxford Guy - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
One has to admit that a Bush being bilingual is something after 8 years of that last one.Rich Pauper - Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - link
Seriously? So many comments on a name? I don't care of they call a release of their OS "Maha Rajah", it's what is inside that matters. And for that matter, don't all the people so affected by this name realize how silly "Apple" itself sounds for a technology company? Why care so much about names?Shinzo Abe - Sunday, July 5, 2015 - link
Consequence of marginalization.Shinzo Abe - Sunday, July 5, 2015 - link
No judgement over it, people can't keep track of why they think what they think all of the time about every thing, that kind of filter would drive a person crazy.Anyway, just be aware that the only reason it sounds weird is because of word association.
buevaping - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
There nothing dumb about the OS named after a rock formation in Yosemite. Translated "the chief" What is dumb is mid-2012 13" Macbook Pro listed at $1099 in the Apple store in June 15, 2015!jimmy$mitty - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Pretty sure El Capitan means "The Captain".....Either way it is just OSX. Nothing super special. Maybe when they release a version that runs on all their devices instead of that watered down baby OS that is iOS then it would be interesting?
solipsism - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
It depends if you're specifically translating from the Spanish term or referring to the actual Ahwahnechee name. Either way it means theo ne who is the leader or ruler.• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Capitan
Lolimaster - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
Learn spanish pls. USA is a future state of Mexico."the chief" --> "El jefe"
Gigaplex - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
"Learn spanish pls."Why?
"USA is a future state of Mexico."
As someone from the southern hemisphere, that's irrelevant.
HardwareDufus - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
I'm not an Apple user. I have however spent a significant time in Yosemite and have seen El Capitan in person (no, I didn't scale it. sorry if that kills my cred). It's breathtaking. I approve the name. :DOxford Guy - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
The Finder icon (and to a lesser extent the Trash) is breathtaking, too, for a different reason.tipoo - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Any chance you guys are going to look into that new (well, old) GPU in the 15" rMBP?Ryan Smith - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
The model we have is the base model, so it doesn't include a dGPU. Not that there's much to say about Cape Verde that we haven't already said in the last three years.tipoo - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
We know the architecture, sure, but I was more interested in the relative performance of that part compared to the 750M, it seems weird that in the same thermal constraints they went with a lower performance per watt part, and claim 70% gaming improvement.jwcalla - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Wait, I thought this was El Capitan?https://youtu.be/C2Wcl4SWu2U?t=18m2s
robcov33 - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Why waste space with any apple product?V900 - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Cause they're by far the biggest manufacturer of premium laptops, tablets and smartphones?Apple got around 90% of the +600$ smartphone market and over 80% of the +1000$ computer market.
That means that they're a huge part of the industry, and even the people who exclusively use 500$ HP laptops, such as perhaps yourself, are affected by their products and decisions.
jimmy$mitty - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
That is vastly wrong. Apple has, of all the PCs sold, 13% market share roughly. They do not have 80% of the $1000+ laptop market as there are more options available from PC than there are from Apple.And Apple doesn't do anything for design nor are PCs run by their decisions. If they were we would all be using Firewire instead of USB. Half the time their products are behind the PCs in the latest technology.
NEDM64 - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
You use USB because Apple pushed hard that standard with the original iMac.FireWire? FireWire is an IEEE standard.
And speaking about IEEE standards, Apple was on the first to push WiFi as a standard, with their consumer AirPort base stations, and AirPort interface cards, that came standard in most models, and turned 802.11 in a standard.
Just because you are not a professional, doesn't mean that other people don't use professional standards...
For example, the relatively cheap, FireWire connected, iSight camera was a staple in computer vision applications in mid-2000s, because it was cheap, and had much less lag, much better frame rate, much better, uncompressed image than any USB camera
Oxford Guy - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
Firewire was a lot better than USB, except with Windows XP thanks to Microsoft's purposefully bad driver.And, had Apple not chosen to start using Intel hardware, Firewire would be really fast today. There are a bunch of faster versions that were in planning and development.
masouth - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
While I agree that it needs to be covered, your reasoning is a bit specious.1) the smart phone market share doesn't mean anything at all when talking about OSX and mentioning it is just a red herring.
2) Simply being dominant in a certain market doesn't necessarily make you a HUGE part of an industry. Apple is certainly an important part of the market and they are a dominant force in the $1000+ market but have you ever looked at what their overall share of the PC market is? 15% in the US? Half of that world wide. Apple's total market share is smaller than the INDIVIDUAL market share of several of the WinPC vendors (HP, DELL, Lenovo, etc).
This needed to be covered simply because it is an update to the largest retail OS not named Windows and Apple is a media juggernaut that would get covered even if they started making toilet seats. Please don't try to delude people into believing that it has anything to do with iPhones or how few PC's Apple can push over a certain arbitrary price point.
serndipity - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
Based on 2014 PC shipments, according to both IDC or Garnter, Apple's market share is 6% (up by 1% from 10 years ago).Additionally, from Consumer Reports 2015 buying guide, of the 25 computers rated, the best Apple best only placed 9th out of the 25, which was significantly, overall 20 points lower than their top pick (i.e. Dell).
Based on Apple's 2015 hardware and software offerings, it appears that their market share will fall back into the 4 - 5% of range.
Oxford Guy - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
Consumer Reports' recommendations range from fairly informed to highly flawed.Bansaku - Friday, June 19, 2015 - link
Numbers are skewed, they don't take into account for 'personal sales' vs 'sales on the whole' (aka personal sales AND business sales). The majority of my friends, family, and co-workers own a Mac for their personal use. 100% of them use PCs in their workplace. If Apple wasn't selling enough computers for personal use they obviously would not be making a profit and year after year selling MILLIONS of Macs.techconc - Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - link
If you're interested in a toaster, Consumer Reports is a reasonable source. If you're discussing anything related to consumer electronics, they are demonstrably incompetent. As an example, a professional photographer isn't going to consult CR for their next purchase and the evaluation criteria CR uses for products is often bizarre.at80eighty - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Ryan[//b] I'm all for supporting AT through ads - but this page is somewhat unreadable from the left side - the seasonic ad is eating into the main article bordersat80eighty - Monday, June 15, 2015 - link
Oops I could have sworn I did the bold tag correctly :/ - we really need an option to delete comments, if not editRyan Smith - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
Could you please email me with a screenshot and the browser you're using?ABR - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
I know OS engineers warm their hearts by the idea of the Grand Unified Search interface where you do and find everything, but I really wish they would stop trying to actually do it. Look, when I'm trying to find a document or email on my computer, I don't want every page from the web showing up in my results. And if I'm interested in finding things on the web, good lord, I can click or command-tab my bloody browser open just as fast as open spotlight, and guess what, then I'm already ready to view the pages too!(Apologies for going off-topic here, I know we're only supposed to talk about the name..)
NEDM64 - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
Then disable web results for spotlight.Oxford Guy - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
Indexing everything makes it easier for the NSA and others to track you, profile you, etc.nils_ - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
There is also a huge privacy concern when you look for some files on your drive and everything you type gets sent to Apple knows where.Oxford Guy - Thursday, June 18, 2015 - link
That's how all contemporary operating systems are designed. They sell it under "fast and convenient file search". In reality it's "faster, more convenient profiling".hp79 - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
I really wish they get rid of the stupid boot chime, err, I mean the brilliant diagnostic chime.I also want them to fix Finder so that I can list folders first without using 3rd party apps like XtraFinder.
I've been generally happy with OSX since moving from Windows 2 years ago.
solipsism - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
1) sudo nvram SystemAudioVolume=%802) http://www.howtogeek.com/67100/force-your-mac-to-p...
xthetenth - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
I'm glad to see OSX finally getting a feature we'd seen in Windows 7. Not having a quick way to get the most out of your screen is painfully pre-2010. Do want dynamic resizing combined with the ability to put things in corners from Win 10 so the OS itself has a less flaky version of LG's screen split app that they bundle with their ultrawides.NEDM64 - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
I'm happy windows users finally get exposé and multiple desktops...Maybe next year, you'll have internet system recovery...
xthetenth - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
Expose is a fancy graphical skin on something that can be accomplished with alt-tab or a quick click to the bottom of the tray. Snap is a real pain to accomplish manually. Multiple desktops is meanwhile one quick trip to sysinternals away.techconc - Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - link
Snap as implemented in Windows is extremely basic in functionality and clearly pales in comparison to what Apple is doing with full screen mode and mission control. Window's snap is a simple hack at best.Oxford Guy - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
But Windows has long had the oppressive modality of individual windows trying to dominate the screen. The Mac OS has had much less modal solutions like windowshade and resize, over the years.xthetenth - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
Using your entire screen truly is oppression. Cast off your shackles, all you have to lose is efficient use of screen real estate!Oxford Guy - Thursday, June 18, 2015 - link
I'm not sure what you mean. One of the things I've always find especially irritating about Windows is how they try to take over so much screen real estate. They're much less refined than something like the Mac OS 9 experience using windowshade, for instance.OS X has made the experience a bit clunkier although it is easier to preview large amounts of media files, especially pictures, with the column view Finder.
genkihito - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
last page typo: major overall -> major overhaulder - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
50th comment WOOOOcasperes1996 - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
Alright, Ryan.I usually really enjoy reading your works, and you're often really well informed, but it's evident that you don't really use OS X. This article is quite uninformed about Notes, and Photos.
Folders for Notes has always existed (at least since Mavericks, but I think always), and rich text editing has also been there for a very long time. The app itself didn't have any UI for the text formatting, but it was very possible to change font, style, etc. by for instance copying text from Pages. Command + and command - also increases or decreases size, and cmd b, cmd i, and cmd u does what you'd expect from a text editor.
Photos has had face detection since version 1, and though it may be improved, it has always been there, and has been a part of iPhoto for a long time as well. I'm on 10.10.4, and all the features I've mentioned are present here as well.
Dorek - Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - link
"some new features for the OSes major applications"Should read "OS's". Or just write "operating system's" which is less confusing.
nils_ - Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - link
It sounds to me that they still didn't do any work at the technological foundation of the OS, which is fairly outdated compared to even current BSDs. Still focused only on flashy things.blackcrayon - Thursday, June 18, 2015 - link
There's never been an OS X release that didn't make improvements to the technological foundation of the OS. And obviously OS X's foundation covers a hell of a lot more than just the BSD layer. Do you really think this preview is a comprehensive list of all of the changes?[email protected] - Thursday, June 18, 2015 - link
My macbook air came with Maverick after installing yosemite it got slow, so went back to maverick, any idea about this version?tipoo - Friday, June 19, 2015 - link
How long did you have Yosemite on it? For the first week or so after a major OSX update macs are frequently slow as everything is optimized.Motion2082 - Sunday, June 21, 2015 - link
As much as I love innovation with OS. You just develop something and then they change it. Makes keeping up with the jones even harderRod_Serling_Lives - Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - link
I am very happy with the initial release. The window management is much more polished than Windows in my opinion. The OS has consistently improved with very little fault.Also, the name is fine. Apple's campus is in the United States, so if you don't know what El Capitan is, I understand. However, that doesn't mean it should be written off because you have never heard of it. That is what a search engine is for.
MassiveTurboLag - Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - link
I've been using Mail in full screen since Lion. Can't see why this is surprising to you.G-Tek - Saturday, July 4, 2015 - link
I really hope they fix the performance issue I have with Yosemite.My 2013 MacBook Air have been fast and perfectly fine until Yosemite came out.
It had 10 seconds boot time before and after I got Maverics, and launched applications pretty fast of my opinion.
When I got Yosemite it suddenly had a boot time of 1 MINUTE (62 seconds)!! Holy crap! I just could not believe an ssd could boot a os so incredible slow! I installed further updates of the os but still the same problem.
Launching applications was a bit slower, but the os boot time was the main difference.
I just sitting here with a sad face and regretting that I did not do a Maverics Time Machine backup. :,(
Now it is quite a bit more stress for me to get back to Maverics.
So I really hope That El Capitan would fix the issue.
JimK85 - Wednesday, July 8, 2015 - link
there are only so many cats in the world.