EVERNOTE FOR MAC YOSEMITE WINDOWS 10
Windows 10 may be a major jump in the right direction for Microsoft interfaces, but alongside El Capitan, it looks ever-so-slightly bland and overly corporate. It’s so good that you should immediately splash £1,200 on a Retina Macbook Pro, just so you can admire Capitan in all of its pixel-polished, perfectly kerned glory.Īnd if you think we’re being facetious, you’re wrong. The end result the prettiest desktop OS in the world, ever. This new font has Lucida Grande readability at all sizes, whilst looking more modern than Lucida and Neue. Helvetica Neue’s gone, replaced by the font that made its debut with the Apple Watch – San Francisco. If you’re one of the many who found Yosemite jarring, you’ll instantly fall in love El Capitan. Which could have been great, but for the fact that Neue bluntly refused to look good at certain sizes (the harsher critics out there would say all sizes). Apple bravely ended its long-standing affair with the Lucida Grande in favour of Helvetica Neue. In particular, there was something subtly wrong about Yosemite’s choice of system font. You could see what what the Apple team was trying to achieve – a light, clean, fresh environment where the content came first, not the heavy application furniture surrounding it.īut somehow, the new desktop didn’t gel. It introduced a whole new world of colours, transparencies and transitions to the Mac desktop, in line with Jonny Ive’s mission to modernise the Mac and iOS interfaces.Īnd the design change worked. Yosemite was one hell of a leap for Apple back in October of 2014. If you really want to nerd out, here’s Apple’s guide to Metal (and note that if you own a Mac from before 2012, you’re out of luck).
Some of that will be down to a clean install, no doubt – but the leap is such that I’m convinced that El Capitan is playing a major role. But boot it into 10.11, and it’s perfectly useable. It huffed and puffed under Yosemite’s reign, with regular freezes and beach balls (to the point where I thought that the well-worn spinning hard drive was dying). The result? A battered old laptop is reborn.
EVERNOTE FOR MAC YOSEMITE PRO
I’ve used its release as an excuse to wipe my household’s used-and-abused 2012 Macbook Pro 13in, clean installing the final GM release of 10.11. It reduces the CPU load by up to 50%, giving graphics-intensive apps more room to do their thing.Īnd even if you own older Mac hardware, El Capitan could be good news.
If you’re interested, this performance transformation is down to the inclusion in El Capitan of Metal, Apple’s graphics technology that first launched with iOS 8 in 2014. You could stare at the screen, watching for the slightest drop in frame rate as you flick applications around, but you’d be wasting your time. It’s stupidly responsive on my 2015 Macbook Pro Retina 13in, even with the display set to the highest resolution (2560×1600). The fact that the irritating stutters were cured by clicking a single (rather hidden) box confirmed everyone’s suspicions: Yosemite simply wasn’t optimised for the fairly intensive gymnastics it was being asked to perform.Įl Capitan, you’ll be delighted to hear, is fast. Specifically, you had to go into Accessibility in System Preferences and disable Transparency, the effect introduced with 10.10 Yosemite, and the cause of the slowdowns. You could make Yosemite faster, but it required a hack. Click on, say, the Safari icon to maximise a window, and it would react with the kind of stiff reluctance that would be painfully familiar to Samsung TouchWiz users (before the arrival of the Galaxy S6, of course). Yosemite seemed to struggle with animations.
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