**Upgrading to El Capitan: A Closer Look**

As I sat down to test the latest upgrade from Yosemite to El Capitan, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement. The promise of improved performance and new features had me eager to dive in and see just how much of an upgrade this would be. With my R9 graphics card, which is incredibly powerful, I was ready to put El Capitan through its paces.

I decided to start with the startup test, shutting down my computer and watching it boot up on both Yosemite and El Capitan. I used a timer to ensure accuracy and observed that, while not dramatically faster, the startup time did seem slightly quicker on El Capitan, clocking in at just over 14 seconds compared to 15 seconds on Yosemite.

**Geekbench Results**

Next, I turned my attention to Geekbench, a comprehensive benchmarking tool that tests both multi-core and single-core performance. Running the full version of the software, I was pleased to see that El Capitan outperformed Yosemite in nearly every category. The multi-core score was 14,541 compared to 13,141 on the previous OS, while the single-core score shot up to 3,886 from 2,891.

I also decided to test the performance of my computer's processor using a demanding game, Lego Jurassic World. I ran the game for an extended period, watching as it loaded and then quickly froze, displaying a blank screen with some minor graphical artifacts. This was frustrating, but not entirely unexpected, given that El Capitan is still in its beta phase and there may be bugs present.

**El Capitan Upgrade Process**

To ensure accurate comparisons, I performed the same tests on both Yosemite and El Capitan, starting with the Geekbench scores and then moving on to the game test. On both occasions, the results were impressive, with El Capitan consistently outperforming its predecessor.

Next, I chose to perform a full reset of my computer to return it to the new OS 10.1.1 installation, as the upgrade was still in beta. Once restored, I ran through the startup process again and watched as El Capitan loaded up relatively quickly, though slightly slower than before, taking around 70 seconds compared to 65 seconds.

**Conclusion**

The overall results of my testing were overwhelmingly positive, with El Capitan outperforming Yosemite in nearly every category. While not perfect, with some minor bugs present, the upgrade seems to have made a significant impact on performance. However, as with any new OS release, it's essential to exercise caution and wait for further updates before upgrading.

In particular, I'd recommend waiting until OS 10.1.1 is released, as this may address some of the issues I experienced during testing. For now, El Capitan seems like a solid upgrade, offering faster performance and improved features, making it an attractive option for those looking to take advantage of Apple's latest innovations.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys everything Apple Pro here and today I'm going to be comparing the new update OS 10 ELC capiton for Max to OS 10 y it was just released today and I know a lot of people are excited to update there's a lot of nice new features but should you update in this video I'm going to be comparing the speed with a geekbench startup and a application launch test so I want to see if indeed the performance did improve because Apple claims the new metal API improves the performance so much especially on newer devices and I just want to put that to the test with this video now of course it's a given don't update if this is your workspace computer no matter how good it seems on paper whenever you install it you're likely to encounter bugs and issues that other people haven't and just to give you guys some info this is my personal MacBook Pro and I've actually got the fully speced version 2.8 GHz 16 gigs of RAM Intel Iris Pro it's got the separate radon R9 graphics card it's an incredibly powerful computer but did alapan make it worse or better as promised so let's let's go ahead and run those tests and I'm going to go ahead and do this on y first then I'm going to do a clean install of elcapitan and see if the scores improved whatsoever first off let's do that startup test so I'm going to go ahead and shut it down for now all right so I've got my timer here I'm going to go ahead and hit the power button and start on my timer at the same time 3 2 1 so it's really nice to have a fast booting computer I got to tell you Mac versus Windows no comparison but anyways in a moment here should be fully up and running cool so just about 14 seconds to boot up OS 10 y0 I'm going to go ahead and run that geekbench and we're going to launch an application and see how these all compare with the alapan update so here's geekbench the full version from the App Store last year I used the browser one as you can see here are my specs and I'm going to run the 64bit chip test anyways here we go run benchmarks man my fan is going off like crazy but we're just about finished and here are the results so really good I mean the other time when I ran this test year ago I had a different Macbook so I had a lot lower of a score but dang looking good 14 541 for the multi-core and 3886 for the single core and one last test before I actually go ahead and reset my computer to El Capitan I wanted to run the Lego Jurassic World game it's pretty intensive my computer heats up a lot while playing it I'm going to go ahead and launch this guy and see how long it takes to start just give me another angle on the speed compared to El capan so 3 2 1 there we go all right so about 43 seconds but let's see if this Compares in any way to elcapitan all right so I'm going to go ahead and do a full reset restore to OS 10 elcapitan and we're going to see how these scores compare hopefully they did increase like apple promised and here we are so so I've completed a full restore to the new OS 10 alabon and just to give you a look here it is so 10.11 and on this new awesome version so let's go ahead and do the same tests as last time I'm going to go ahead and perform the startup and see where we're at we're going to hit start and power at the same time 3 2 1 hopefully there is an improvement here wow so 15 seconds unfortunately that was actually a little bit slower than ye that was 14 seconds so 1 second delay here and I'm going to go ahead and do it one more time just to get a conclusive result all right so same deal here we go all right wow so this time it was faster hm about half a second faster than you have 70 cool so let's go ahead and do that geek bench and see where we stand on the actual numbers and here we go so take a look at that there is a considerable difference between yeed and eliton and this isn't even getting into applications I mean this isn't even taking full advantage of metal but already I can see for the multi-core score there is a considerable difference as well as the single core score so very impressive and overall I just got to say everything is so Snappy I absolutely love this OS although I'm not going to be installing on my workstation just yet I'm going to see how it goes but seems pretty solid so far so I'm going to go ahead and launch the same game and see how long it takes to start this guy up oh my gosh see this is what I mean by bugs guys the whole screen isn't showing on the bottom wow now it just moves up so absolutely terrible this is why you shouldn't upgrade just yet because a lot of your old apps might not work and uh I'd say it's about the same I haven't really noticed a difference here okay so I just quit this app and now stuck in this resolution so like I said guys just be careful don't update just yet I would wait until OS 10.1.1 comes out that's already being worked on so you might experience bugs until then I mean I've never had that happen to me on yed and overall the numbers don't lie the startup is somewhat faster and the geek bench is considerably faster so it will be a worthy upgrade in just a little bit thanks for watching guys hope you enjoyed this video have a great day enjoy OS 10 L Capitan if you decided to upgrade peacewhat's up guys everything Apple Pro here and today I'm going to be comparing the new update OS 10 ELC capiton for Max to OS 10 y it was just released today and I know a lot of people are excited to update there's a lot of nice new features but should you update in this video I'm going to be comparing the speed with a geekbench startup and a application launch test so I want to see if indeed the performance did improve because Apple claims the new metal API improves the performance so much especially on newer devices and I just want to put that to the test with this video now of course it's a given don't update if this is your workspace computer no matter how good it seems on paper whenever you install it you're likely to encounter bugs and issues that other people haven't and just to give you guys some info this is my personal MacBook Pro and I've actually got the fully speced version 2.8 GHz 16 gigs of RAM Intel Iris Pro it's got the separate radon R9 graphics card it's an incredibly powerful computer but did alapan make it worse or better as promised so let's let's go ahead and run those tests and I'm going to go ahead and do this on y first then I'm going to do a clean install of elcapitan and see if the scores improved whatsoever first off let's do that startup test so I'm going to go ahead and shut it down for now all right so I've got my timer here I'm going to go ahead and hit the power button and start on my timer at the same time 3 2 1 so it's really nice to have a fast booting computer I got to tell you Mac versus Windows no comparison but anyways in a moment here should be fully up and running cool so just about 14 seconds to boot up OS 10 y0 I'm going to go ahead and run that geekbench and we're going to launch an application and see how these all compare with the alapan update so here's geekbench the full version from the App Store last year I used the browser one as you can see here are my specs and I'm going to run the 64bit chip test anyways here we go run benchmarks man my fan is going off like crazy but we're just about finished and here are the results so really good I mean the other time when I ran this test year ago I had a different Macbook so I had a lot lower of a score but dang looking good 14 541 for the multi-core and 3886 for the single core and one last test before I actually go ahead and reset my computer to El Capitan I wanted to run the Lego Jurassic World game it's pretty intensive my computer heats up a lot while playing it I'm going to go ahead and launch this guy and see how long it takes to start just give me another angle on the speed compared to El capan so 3 2 1 there we go all right so about 43 seconds but let's see if this Compares in any way to elcapitan all right so I'm going to go ahead and do a full reset restore to OS 10 elcapitan and we're going to see how these scores compare hopefully they did increase like apple promised and here we are so so I've completed a full restore to the new OS 10 alabon and just to give you a look here it is so 10.11 and on this new awesome version so let's go ahead and do the same tests as last time I'm going to go ahead and perform the startup and see where we're at we're going to hit start and power at the same time 3 2 1 hopefully there is an improvement here wow so 15 seconds unfortunately that was actually a little bit slower than ye that was 14 seconds so 1 second delay here and I'm going to go ahead and do it one more time just to get a conclusive result all right so same deal here we go all right wow so this time it was faster hm about half a second faster than you have 70 cool so let's go ahead and do that geek bench and see where we stand on the actual numbers and here we go so take a look at that there is a considerable difference between yeed and eliton and this isn't even getting into applications I mean this isn't even taking full advantage of metal but already I can see for the multi-core score there is a considerable difference as well as the single core score so very impressive and overall I just got to say everything is so Snappy I absolutely love this OS although I'm not going to be installing on my workstation just yet I'm going to see how it goes but seems pretty solid so far so I'm going to go ahead and launch the same game and see how long it takes to start this guy up oh my gosh see this is what I mean by bugs guys the whole screen isn't showing on the bottom wow now it just moves up so absolutely terrible this is why you shouldn't upgrade just yet because a lot of your old apps might not work and uh I'd say it's about the same I haven't really noticed a difference here okay so I just quit this app and now stuck in this resolution so like I said guys just be careful don't update just yet I would wait until OS 10.1.1 comes out that's already being worked on so you might experience bugs until then I mean I've never had that happen to me on yed and overall the numbers don't lie the startup is somewhat faster and the geek bench is considerably faster so it will be a worthy upgrade in just a little bit thanks for watching guys hope you enjoyed this video have a great day enjoy OS 10 L Capitan if you decided to upgrade peace\n"