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The next version of OS X [apple.com], Apple [apple.com]'s remarkable laptop and desktop operating system, has been announced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference today [macrumors.com]!

Its version number is 10.11, and its moniker is El Capitan, in reference to the superb and truly American El Capitan rock formation [wikipedia.org] at America's premiere national park, the Yosemite National Park [wikipedia.org].

Details are still coming in, but it's expected to include fantastic updates to Safari, Mail and Spotlight. Metal for Mac will combine the "computing power of OpenCL and graphics power of OpenGL into a new API that does both."

It's expected to be available in public beta starting this July, with the final public release coming in the fall. This is an important release of OS X that Mac users worldwide are looking forward to.

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