The futureĪlthough El Capitan is essentially a solid win, its lack of imaginative momentum - just as the iPad Pro rounds into existence - undermines the argument Apple has always made that Macs and iPads exist for two different purposes, and two different users. This is simple stuff, but it's glorious, too. Search for directions on your Mac, click a button and stand up with the directions on your Watch. And at its best, El Capitan is also Apple at its best: shake your cursor and it will now balloon in size so you can find it. El Capitan makes the world's best computers better. It's not a 'slight' upgrade, though others will claim as much. It improves the foundations of the Mac with better core performance and battery life, gestures towards a solution for windows management and Spotlight, and makes many of the key apps noticeably better than before. If you already use and like OS X it's impossible to not be impressed with El Capitan. We'll have to see if developers pick up the baton and make games for OS X, when iOS still has such a bigger install base and potential profit waiting in its much busier app store. Games in particular have long been an issue for Macs, particularly since most of Apple's machines use graphics processors intended for laptops rather than dedicated gaming rigs. Obviously many of these performance improvements are significant, but it may take some time for developers to fully realise them. Since we were running El Capitan on a review machine, which we had not used without it, it's impossible for us to compare the OS on that score. And because of a reduction in the CPU to help out with graphics rendering, Apple is claiming better battery life too. It might not sound tremendously exciting, but Apple has found a number of core efficiencies and improvements to certain tasks in El Capitan (making it 50 percent quicker to open a PDF, for instance, and 40 percent quicker to open many apps) and introduced Metal, its new graphics bedrock, leading to much better performance in games and pro apps - though WIRED only had limited compatible software with which to test this in the real world. The final big area of improvement is in core performance - battery and speed. But in its understandable reluctance to put a touchscreen on a Mac, or to mess too much with a laptop's core form factor, OS X only has limited potential to transform our lives, and itself. Apple will no doubt continue to make excellent - let's face it, the best - desktop computers and laptops around. It's just going to get better, and the hardware is just getting bigger and more powerful.īy contrast, OS X still makes way more sense today as a desktop OS - but look ahead five or ten years and it becomes a bit tougher to see where it goes next. As iOS appears on bigger screens and better processors, its starting to find ways to be more useful to more people. The new multitasking features in the latest release were a huge improvement on their own, and came coupled with iOS's continued security and battery usage benefits. It doesn't work.īut if iOS still lacks sophistication in the workplace, it also brims with potential. Try running a modern CMS - such as, for instance, the one on which this review was produced - on an iPad, with image resizing and video editing, social media monitoring and posting and various Office-related workplace minutiae happening all at once, for instance. That isn't to say iOS is actually better at most tasks when you're working at a desk.
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