“Apple now names OS X after California locations, and the El Capitan name has more meaning than what it seems on the surface,” Roman Loyola reports for Macworld. “The El Capitan ‘location’ is a 3000-foot monolith of granite found within Yosemite National Park.”
“As Apple puts it, OS X El Capitan is about ‘refining the experience and improving performance’ of OS X,” Loyola reports. “If you consider that OS X 10.11 is mostly designed to tweak, fix, and add minor features to OS X Yosemite (version 10.10), then the name of OS X 10.11 makes sense.”
Loyola reports, “Apple says that El Capitan will be available on September 30.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Running the OS X 10.11. El Capitan Gold Master seed has made every Mac we’ve installed it on snappier with Metal for Mac significantly improving graphics performance across the board. It’s rock solid with zero Wi-Fi issues so far, too!
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