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“It backed up everything, including, eventually, itself.”
“The last OS X: solid as the rock it was named for, and just as hard to replace.”
OS X El Capitan, version 10.11, arrived on September 30, 2015 as a free upgrade through the Mac App Store, carrying the California place-name tradition forward with a nod to the famous rock formation in Yosemite National Park. It focused mainly on performance, stability, and security, and critics rewarded it with far better reviews than its predecessor, Yosemite. For a release all about getting out of your way, peopl
It bowed out in 2018, succeeded by macOS Sierra, and it holds two quiet distinctions: it was the final version ever released under the name OS X, and the last to support the 2008-2009 aluminum MacBook and the Xserve. When it went, so did the OS X era itself. El Capitan was the name the old world exited on.
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“It backed up everything, including, eventually, itself.”
“It gave Android its paper feel, and Android never looked back.”
“Fifteen thousand subtitled stories, one final subtitle: The End.”