And while we’re on the subject, Andrew Cunningham and Lee Hutchinson have a rather comprehensive look at El Capitan at Ars Technica. OS X 10.11 El Capitan: The Ars Technica Review knows all and tells all. For example, here’re the table of contents:
- Installation and system requirements
- Welcome to San Francisco
- Window management: Mission Control and Split View
- Spotlight
- App improvements: Notes
- Safari and Safari extensions
- Maps
- Photos
- Disk Utility
- Metal
- OpenGL: Still lagging behind
- System Integrity Protection
- File- and block-level protections
- Digging in a little deeper at the file level
- Running protections
- Developers, developers… developers?
- Disabling it all
- Trimforce and third-party SSDs
- Networking: mDNSResponder
- Happy eyeballs look toward IPv6
- Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
- Network security
- App transport security
- Grab bag: Swift 2
- Internationalization and localization
- Safari’s responsive design mode
- Find My Friends
- System Preferences tweaks and new wallpapers
- Hiding the menu bar
- Battery life
- Recommendations
- Conclusions: The importance of the minor update
