Gallery: The 10 Most Exciting Features in Mac OS X El Capitan
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__Cleaner Windows.__ A computer desktop is like a real desktop: When you're busy, it can turn into a scattered mess. A new feature in Mission Control lets you display all your open windows cleanly with a simple swipe or move some of them to a new, clean desktop space.
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__Pin Sites In Safari.__ Sure, these are basically just bookmarks, but they're elegant and uncluttered. Pinning a website drops a little chiclet with its logo on the far-left side of Safari's tab bar, so your days of manually entering URLs are long gone, son. Long gone.
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__Splitscreen on the Desktop.__ Forget having to manually resize and shoehorn two apps onto your screen when you're using a Mac, too. The new Split View mode, which is similar to Windows' Snap feature, lets you pick two apps and work with them, side by side, in glorious fullscreen.
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__Richer Notes.__ People love Evernote for a reason, and now the new Notes app baked into the Mac does some similar tricks. You can add images, video, drawings, and maps to your Notes, create interactive checklists, and sync your notes across all your Apple devices.
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__Mute Noisy Tabs in Safari.__ At long last, one of Chrome's best features is coming to Safari. Mac OS X El Capitan lets you know which one of those 6,793 tabs is making a racket and lets you mute the offender without hopping to another tab. You can also mute all tabs without touching the system's volume.
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__Metal for Mac.__ Metal isn't just for iOS anymore. Game developers will be able to tap into future Macs' GPUs thanks to Metal for Mac. Apple says the graphics-core tech will speed graphics rendering by up to 50 percent when El Capitan is released to the public this fall.
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__Spotlight Speaks Plain English.__ Search enhancements are a big deal for both iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan this time around. The newest version of Spotlight has cleaner results for public transit, stocks, video, weather, and sports. Better yet, you can type stuff like "document i wrote last month about pudding" and get what you're looking for.
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__Swiping Gestures In Mail.__ When you're busy pruning your email down to inbox zero, OS X now acts a lot more like iOS. The new version of OS X supports swiping gestures. Swipe right to mark your messages, and swipe left to kick those emails to the curb.
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__Mightier Maps.__ Look man, not everyone uses Uber. The latest iteration of Maps has goodies for everyone who uses public transportation, including directions involving transfers and directions based on your target arrival time. You can also port directions you generated on your Mac over to your iPhone.
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__Big Cursor.__ You no longer have to act like some sort of computer DJ getting wicky-wicky on the trackpad when you simply want to find your cursor. In Mac OS X El Capitan, the mouse pointer swells up like the Hulk when you wake up your machine, so it's plainly visible.
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