OS X 10.11 El Capitan: What we know so far of the new operating system Mac

” El Capitan ” is the name of the new operating system for Mac. Improvements ” under the hood ” in the management of the windows in the app interface standard, in Spotlight searches, and others that make everyday tasks from the launch of the app, the mail management faster, practice.

At today’s WWDC Apple announced OS X ” El Capitan “, the new version of OS X that Apple looks like a ” perfecting the Mac ” with specific features to improve system performance. Constructed from OS X 10.10 Yosemite, El Capitan provides improvements in window management, integrated app in the series, in Spotlight searches, and others that make everyday tasks from the launch of the app, the management of email faster, practice.

Among the ” pieces ” of the ” engine ” that have helped to improve the overall speed of the system, there is Metal, graphics technology already seen on iOS that let you speed up various operations using the GPU video card; Also developers can obviously exploit Metal and obtain, according to Apple, significant improvements in terms of performance.

Craig Federighi, senior vice president of Software Engineering at Apple said that the current OS X 10.10 Yosemite is the operating system more quickly adopted as always, explaining that the new is an overall improvement of the previous year.

The system fonts has been changed and is now San Francisco, according to Apple font more readable and ” beautiful ” on Retina display. Mission Control, the system shows an overall view of the desk for allowing to pass to display app and space, has been revised: When the desk is crowded, just drag a window to the top of the screen to access the new Spaces Bar in Mission Control and create a new space. The ” Split View ” allows players to divide two perfectly app full screen, allowing you to work without distraction with the two applications side by side.

Note has been rewritten and now allows drag&drop of photos, PDF, videos, and other files in the notes, as well as the content of app which Safari and Maps using the share button. You can create checklists that take account of the things to do, take advantage of a new browser for attachments that simplifies the search and sync notes via iCloud.

Spotlight becomes ” smarter ” and enabling access to more results, including weather forecasts, stock market, sports scores, journeys of Public Transportation and movies on the web. The Spotlight window can be moved and resized to display a larger number of results, and it is also possible to use natural language to do the research.

As regards performance, Apple speaks of acceleration for Core Animation and Core Graphics with improvements of up to 50% for rendering, and improvements in terms of efficiency up to 40%, numbers that in practice promise app faster even in execution of the task easier. Metal will exploit the inherent capabilities of the CPU and GPU, providing calls to drawing routines up to 10 times faster than before, with obvious advantages in games and professional app.

A curious feature allows you to locate the cursor on the fly at any time: just move up and down the trackpad or give a ” boost ” to the mouse to zoom in ” on the fly ” the pointer and find it quickly.

As for support for international languages, we have been integrated new system fonts for Chinese (traditional and simplified) with 50,000 characters specifically designed to be very easy to read screen. There is a new input method that allows you to write faster in the Chinese vocabulary and integrated in order to be updated periodically.

Even the typing of Japanese text will be speeded up: the system automatically transforms the Hiragana written in Japanese and reduces the need to individually select and confirm conversions of words. Also for the Rising Sun, you can select your preferred font for your documents using four new Japanese characters.

The developer preview of OS X 10.11 El Capitan is available for members of the Mac Developer Program today; users can participate in the beta testing in July and the final version in the fall.

Note that Apple has never mentioned the name ” OS X 10.11 ” but during the presentation at WWDC has referred to the new system only ever as ” OS X El Capitan “.