Meet El Capitan, new OSX update for Macs

Jefferson Graham | USA TODAY

SAN FRANCISCO - El Capitan is the next California landmark honored by Apple for its Mac operating system, OSX.

The software replaces Yosemite and will be available later this year.

Apple updates its operating system every year, and offers it for free.

Apple kicked off its Worldwide Developers Conference here by touting the OSX update, which it said would work faster with computers.

Apple executive Craig Federighi said computers would see optimized performance, with PDFs opening in previews four times faster.

The OSX update was given to developers Monday. It will be available in a public beta in July and available to all in the fall.

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