Under-the-hood tweaks come in new El Capitan beta

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New El Capitan beta is here.
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In this eighth beta for Apple OS X developers (the sixth version for those involved in the OS X El Capitan public beta), Apple continues to improve and polish the latest operating system for Mac.

Build 15A279b, as it’s cleverly named, doesn’t have a lot of notes about what’s changing, but we can assume there will be a bunch of internal fixes that may not be readily apparent to the average user.

You do need to either be a registered Apple developer or public beta tester, you need to be using a 64-bit, Intel-based Mac and running at least Mac OS X 10.6.7 to get this new seed. You’ll also need 8GB of free disk space, and Xcode 7 to develop apps for OS X El Capitan, also known as OS X 10.11.

Updates are here.
Updates are here.
Screen: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac

“If you have OS X v10.11 installed,” writes Apple on its developer page, “download this update by clicking Updates in the toolbar of the Mac App Store. If you do not have OS X 10.11 installed, use your download code on the Mac App Store to get started.”

The last several beta seeds have been pretty empty of forward-facing or visual changes. While the fifth El Capitan beta brought a new colored OS X logo in the About This Mac section, the sixth and seventh betas, like this one, focused mostly on performance improvements and bug fixes.

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