Apple Announces OS X 10.11 El Capitan - Available Fall 2015

[tonymacx86]

Great story today on Metal for OS X from Anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9352/apples-metal-api-comes-to-os-x-desktops

 

[Cougarcat]

Anything disseminated or announced by Apple publicly can be discussed, but refrain from discussion of installation procedures, guides, etc...

Once the Public Beta build is out, we will be relaxing our policy somewhat. Stay tuned.

Very glad to hear this. It's always been funny to me that this site has been more strict about it than MacRumors. And ever since Apple started publicly releasing its WWDC videos for free, the NDA has been increasingly irrelevant anyway.

 

[Gutz_Otoole]

I say "OS EX". Somehow it sounds a bit better than "OS ten ten ten three". I'll see myself out

You're saying one too many ten's. The first "ten" is referenced by the X, so it's spoken "Oh Es Ten Dot Ten Dot Three," which is better but still clumsy.

Poor Steven Jobs went to his grave with a tin ear for nomenclature. He could have leveraged his operating system's UNIX lineage by calling it "Oh Es Ex" while retaining the implied meaning of the Roman numeral. That way El Capitan would enjoy the much more euphonious serial designation "Oh Es Ex Eleven".

Actually "Oh Es Ten.. blah, blah" is a bit of a cheat. It implies a continuity with MacOS 9 and it antecedents which is almost literally only skin deep, it's like saying two people are related because they wear similar hats. "Oh Es Ex" would have been both smarter and more honest, IMAO.

 

[Cougarcat]

Actually "Oh Es Ten.. blah, blah" is a bit of a cheat. It implies a continuity with MacOS 9 and it antecedents which is almost literally only skin deep, it's like saying two people are related because they wear similar hats. "Oh Es Ex" would have been both smarter and more honest, IMAO.

I thought it made perfect sense. It implies it's the one after OS 9, but since the X is referring to the name of the operating system, it also indicates it's a new thing.

As long as you realize the "OS X" part is a name, not a version, it works. It's OS X, version 10.11. It always befuddles me that this always seems to come up with every new version of OS X. There might be a case to be made that they should have started with version 1.0 instead of 10, though 1.11 sounds arguably goofier. But this is the reason that apple doesn't refer to the version in marketing and instead relies on the names.

But if we want to talk about really bad apple branding, there's "Mobile Me" and "Ping" to make fun of.

 

[HeL0]

Just an FYI, please don't discuss installation of any Developer Betas here- we're all super excited about it but it is under NDA and open only to registered and paid Apple developers.

Anything disseminated or announced by Apple publicly can be discussed, but refrain from discussion of installation procedures, guides, etc...

Once the Public Beta build is out, we will be relaxing our policy somewhat. Stay tuned.

+1

I will only say, just put it on my MacBook Pro and I'm not very impressed. Though it's still a Beta…

 

[antonioj07]

Glad things will be different for the public beta this year

 

[chicago_mike]

I'm thinking the libraries might go open source....Thats a big ass guess from me though. They obviously want it to replace Objective C. Took a class in that and ugh..all the NSThis and NSThat gave me ulcers. C# i like though, so go figure. =/

 

[Azimuth1]

anybody knows if Metal will bring 10bit color depth support to OS X?

 

[TomHsiung]

When can we install capitan on pc?

 

[chicago_mike]

Every time I read El Capitan, I keep seeing Inigo Montoya. That would have been a better name.

'Alo! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my hard drive. Prepare to die!