#Mac mini review 2008 update
#Mac mini review 2008 software

ItвЂ™s nothing you canвЂ™t already do manually or with third-party programs such as Moom, but it hides menus and other unnecessary program features to fill the screen with more of the text or work youвЂ™re trying to get done. Drag a window to the top of the screen or hold down the green вЂњmaximiseвЂќ button to organise the windows and drag them on to a new space or on top of a pre-existing one to get going. Spotlight search can now be moved and enlarged and responds to natural language searches such as вЂњfiles I worked on in MarchвЂќ or вЂњemail I sent to Alex about adblockingвЂќ вЂ“ which sounds great, but in practice just skips out a bit of syntax such as вЂњsubject: adblockingвЂќ.Д®l Capitan improves full-screen window management with Split View, taken straight from iOS, allowing two apps to fill one screen with a resizing line down the middle just like Windows 8. Shake the cursor and it enlarges so you can see it more easily if itвЂ™s lost on screen. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianД«eyond speed, a few small elements have been improved. Typing out natural language feels a little strange, but mostly does what it is meant to and makes finding files or emails a little easier. MacBook Airs from late 2008 and onwards.

It supports machines with at least 2GB of RAM and 8GB of free storage space and in the following models:

#Mac mini review 2008 update

OS X 10.11 El Capitan is a free update from the Mac App Store released on 30 September.

#Mac mini review 2008 software

ItвЂ™s the first version of any of AppleвЂ™s software I have installed that has actually sped up the machine. Those that can and will interact with Metal directly вЂ“ programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Premier, or games вЂ“ will see an even greater boost. Apps that use AppleвЂ™s core graphics system will benefit without having to do anything. Metal replaces OpenGL and speeds things up. Part of that performance boost is the introduction of AppleвЂ™s Metal graphics system, which was first introduced with iOS 8. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianДЄpple claims that speed has improved between 1.4 and four times the performance of OS X Yosemite, depending on the task, and in my testing I would say that the figure is about right. Apple Maps gains public transport directions, mirroring iOS 9.