Apple makes OS X El Capitan available

Apple released version 10.11 of its operating system on Wednesday evening. OS X El Capitan brings speed improvements to older Mac systems, among other things, and the operating system offers Split View for full-screen viewing with two windows.

Apple released the official version of OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store on Wednesday evening. Mac system owners can update their operating system for free through the Mac App Store. Version 10.11 has a size of 6.08GB according to Apple.

Any system that can also run OS X Yosemite will work with El Capitan, including mid-2007 MacBook Pros or later, MacBook Airs, and 2007 or newer iMacs. However, not all speed improvements come to all those systems. The improvements of Metal, which gives developers more direct access to the GPU, only come to computers that Apple released from the end of 2012.

For all supported systems, Apple promises that with El Capitan, among other things, opening and switching apps, viewing PDF documents and displaying the first email will be smoother. In addition, the Notes program has been expanded considerably, sites can be pinned in Safari, there is a Split View view and there are changes to Mission Control.

Learn more about the changes El Capitan is bringing in the preview OS X El Capitan Preview – Modest Update for Macs.