During its WDDC 2015 event in San Francisco, Apple has unveiled the next version of its OS X operating system, the OS X El Capitan.

The new OS X El Capitan, which will most likely end up to be the 10.11 version, will continue the work started by Apple with OS X Yosemite, which brought new design, by focusing on improvements to both the user experience as well as the performance.

One of the biggest updates is the new Spotlight Search. With OS X Yosemite, Spotlight had the ability to search for keywords and phrases inside files while now it will use the search functionality of Siri to text searches done by Spotlight. Basically, you can ask for any information including the weather, scores of a certain game, search for specific items and much more.

The Mission Control got plenty of improvements as well, including some interface changes including an ability to drag windows to the bar at the top in order to maximize them, ability to use multitasking with an ability to split the screen down the middle and more.

The new OS X El Capitan will bring new improvements for existing applications including, Notes, Mail and Safari.

Apple also significantly focused on the performance. With the redesign which came with Yosemite, performance was quite demanding on both the CPU and the GPU, which should now be fixed as Apple has switching to Metal graphics API. Both the Core Graphics and Core Animation APIs now run on Metal rather than OpenGL, which in the end, at least according to Apple, will bring up to 50 percent higher rendering performance and bring smoother UI experience.

The developer beta version of the OS X El Capitan is available as of today while the public beta will be available in July with final release set for this fall.







Source: Apple.com.