You there – the early adopter. You don’t want to wait until this autumn to test drive Apple’s latest Mac operating system, do you? Of course not. So you’ll be pleased to hear that the public beta test ...

Apple has finally released its new operating system for Macs, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, which is a free download to all Mac users. El Capitan offers many subtle refinements to the Mac experience, such as ...

The next version of Apple's Mac software is available for download. CNET explains where you can get it and how to use it. Kent was a senior managing editor at CNET News. A veteran of CNET since 2003, ...

Apple announced a handful of products yesterday, including a new iPhone, a 12.9-inch iPad Pro that's better suited for productivity than its other iPad tablets, and a refreshed Apple TV set-top box.

The computer software makes common actions easier, such as letting users view two open windows at once with a split-view screen. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, overseeing a team ...

OS X El Capitan is the latest version of OS X for Mac machines, but how does it perform on an older Mac? While El Capitan comes with mostly the same look and feel as OS X Yosemite, the new version ...

When I first previewed OS X El Capitan, Apple's latest Mac operating system, the software wasn't quite finished, and it also wasn't available to anybody without a developer account (that's most people ...

We hoped that El Capitan would be a sort of modern Snow Leopard: an OS with relatively few new features but much faster and more reliable performance compared to its predecessor. El Capitan is ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Good, bad, good, bad, good: the big desktop and mobile operating systems seem to follow a predictable pattern. Take Windows: Vista was bad, W7 was good, W8 was bad (and, oddly, also good), and now ...