Apple OS X El Capitan

#1

Post by NickSarath » Mon, Jun 08, 2015, 5:15 PM UTC

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#2

Post by sinatra » Mon, Jun 08, 2015, 5:31 PM UTC

It looks like an incremental release. Not a bad idea considering how many bugs / issues Yosemite had. Hopefully, El Capitan fixes most of them.

Re: Apple OS X El Capitan

#3

Post by teraflop » Mon, Jun 08, 2015, 5:33 PM UTC

For anyone else who's wondering where the actual information is: you have to scroll up, not down. Far from obvious on a mobile device.

Re: Apple OS X El Capitan

#4

Post by lambdasquirrel » Mon, Jun 08, 2015, 5:33 PM UTC

Welp... it looks like OS X is about to discover tiling window management lite. ;)

Re: Apple OS X El Capitan

#5

Post by zamalek » Mon, Jun 08, 2015, 5:34 PM UTC

> Metal is coming to Mac, paving the way for new levels of realism and detail in games and other apps.

I'm guessing this is yet another API like Mantle/Vulkan that is also seated comfortably in the Apple walled garden and increases the development costs: awesome!

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Post by monroepe » Mon, Jun 08, 2015, 5:36 PM UTC

teraflop wrote: post #3

For anyone else who's wondering where the actual information is: you have to scroll up, not down. Far from obvious on a mobile device.

Thank you. I was wondering about it.

Re: Apple OS X El Capitan

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Post by nemothekid » Mon, Jun 08, 2015, 5:37 PM UTC

sinatra wrote: post #2

It looks like an incremental release. Not a bad idea considering how many bugs / issues Yosemite had. Hopefully, El Capitan fixes most of them.

Same, I'm still on Mavericks, and Yosemite still feels like "bleeding edge" to me.

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Post by acdha » Mon, Jun 08, 2015, 5:38 PM UTC

zamalek wrote: post #5

> Metal is coming to Mac, paving the way for new levels of realism and detail in games and other apps. I'm guessing this is yet another API like Mantle/Vulkan that is also seated comfortably in the Apple walled garden and increases the development costs: awesome!

Yes, but unlike either of those it's in widespread production use (Mantle is still beta, Vulkan was just announced). It shipped last year on iOS 8 – this is just the expected next step of offering it on OS X as well:

https://developer.apple.com/metal/

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Post by emsy » Mon, Jun 08, 2015, 5:39 PM UTC

zamalek wrote: post #5

> Metal is coming to Mac, paving the way for new levels of realism and detail in games and other apps. I'm guessing this is yet another API like Mantle/Vulkan that is also seated comfortably in the Apple walled garden and increases the development costs: awesome!

You probably won't use it yourself. You'll use Unity or UT4 which uses Metal under the hood.

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Post by gcb0 » Mon, Jun 08, 2015, 5:40 PM UTC

gotta love the adoption rate being percentage and not numbers. osx would show as a flat line...