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October 2015
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The editors liked
Despite its somewhat clunky implementation
Split View is a welcome
Sorely needed addition. The ability to easily get a couple of apps side-by-side for an intense multitasking session means there is no need to fiddle with manually resizing and placing wi
Spilt View is useful
Mail adds suggested contacts
Improved Mission Control
It's free
Multitasking improvements
Refreshed Notes app
Snappier performance
Split View
Notes app much more powerful
Safari mute button
Very fast and responsive
Superior usability to Yosemite
Pinned tabs for Safari
Performance boosts for older Macs
Great improvements to Safari
Spotlight is smarter
Faster performance
Frequent updates and fixes
Improved Notes app
System font
'Shake to find' cursor feature
The editors didn't like
Despite its utility
Split View feels cumbersome compared to Microsoft's implementation in Windows. Anyone that has used Snap on Windows 7
8 or 10 is likely familiar with the simple click-and-drag gesture used to invoke it
And Apple would have done well
Spotlight not as good as Siri
Split View is fiddly
Performance increase is minor
Clumsy Split View controls
Modest app updates
No blockbuster new features
Some performance issues
Directions limited to London
Split screen functionality isn't that useful
Not convinced by split-screen
Some minor bugs
Where's Siri
Some features remain buggy and unreliable four months on
Despite its somewhat clunky implementation, Split View is a welcome, sorely needed addition. The ability to easily get a couple of apps side-by-side for an intense multitasking session means there is no need to fiddle with manually resizing and placing wi
Despite its utility, Split View feels cumbersome compared to Microsoft's implementation in Windows. Anyone that has used Snap on Windows 7, 8 or 10 is likely familiar with the simple click-and-drag gesture used to invoke it, and Apple would have done well
OS X El Capitan isn't going to please anyone looking for a revolution, but it's a solid update overall. Between the performance improvements, new app features, and multitasking tweaks, there's no reason not to dislike what Apple has accomplished here. And...
There are lots of new features in Windows 10 and we certainly like it a lot, but there's also little doubt that Microsoft is still playing catch-up with OS X in many key areas, including security and desktop features. Windows 10 is undoubtedly more secure...
Faster performance, Frequent updates and fixes, Improved Notes app, System font, 'Shake to find' cursor feature
Some features remain buggy and unreliable four months on, Mail misbehaving, Disk Utility loses features we liked
We hoped that El Capitan would be a sort of modern Snow Leopard: an OS with relatively few new features but much faster and more reliable performance compared to its predecessor. El Capitan is certainly faster than Yosemite, but it's dogged by reliability...
OS X El Capitan takes the foundation set in place by Yosemite and builds upon it ever so slightly. There are no revolutionary new features or redesigns to be found here, but the tweaks and polish make it a solid update worth grabbing...
Very fast and responsive, Superior usability to Yosemite, Pinned tabs for Safari
Split screen functionality isn't that useful
Let's cut to the quick: El Capitan is brilliant, and you should upgrade from Yosemite as fast as your broadband pipe will allow. It's fast, clever, dashed attractive and will do just about everything you'd ever want to do. Oh, and it's free. Is this the...
Abstract: El Capitan (OS X Version 10.11) downloaded in four hours, though that was immediately after it became available. I imagine the time would be significantly less when some of the hype has passed.The update itself took a relatively brisk 30 minutes, and comp...
Published: 2015-09-30, Author: Stuart , review by: pocket-lint.com
Spilt View is useful, Mail adds suggested contacts, improved Mission Control, it's free
Spotlight not as good as Siri, Split View is fiddly, performance increase is minor
Updating to OS X El Capitan is free, it won't cost you a penny. So it's absolutely worth upgrading for the minor tweaks that will improve your workflow, even if you won't notice many of them at first. And that's the key takeaway here: while Apple h...
