El Capitan OS X Tutorial

[@AMWausau]

I have been using Windows Computers for almost 25 years. I have struggled using Macs in airports and internet cafes and at my brothers house for no more than ten hours over those years when i felt compelled to surf the web or read email. Now all of a sudden I have the newest Mac and find your classes invaluable. Just a shout out and a thank you.

[@darrenrowley5646]

Ive just purchased a mac book pro with El Capitan. After using macs around 10 years ago i have finally left windows behind me in the dust. So glad I'm using a Mac again and watching your videos has just helped me ease back in. Im loving it all over again. Keep up the good work.

[@joandick]

Thanks David. I did the upgrade to El Capitan today. This video is excellent to get me started. Thanks for the access to "paper notes" to help me follow along and make notes. You are a master teacher!

[@deborahpatterson1924]

I've found all your videos Very very helpful for tech dummies like me who grew up with a Bic Biro and a notepad! Not quite old enough to remember the little blackboards and chalk kids had before paper...!! You make them so interesting and easy to follow. I have my MacBook Pro open And follow all your steps whilst watching on iPad. Please don't ever stop doing them. For those 93 who gave you thumbs down, they obviously know it all!! So why were they watching??

[@just60fpspcvideos39]

Oh man. Split screen mode may be the single most useful enhancement to OS X that I've ever seen! This is going to increase my productivity so much, and is just a fantastic quality of life improvement. I am constantly using two apps at once! Normally with my Macbook Pro Retina, I leave the screen in "Best Fit" mode, but I think now I'm going to be using the full resolution of the Retina screen more in order to get more real estate to work with. Split screen is such a game changer for me, so awesome!

[@markcollier1932]

I love it too. Hopefully they will continue to update it so that it can split in more ways and work with all apps - and not require full screen. But it's definitely a step forward.

[@marcovazquez1333]

normally when i see an ad i would go to another video. pretty cool how blunt you were. i watched the entire ad and subscribed.

[@gwensulak6790]

Your videos are always so easy to understand and you speak so clearly. Not sure how I happened upon your videos, but I am glad I did. Thank you David.

[@ukmummoe]

Just wanted to say thank you, I have just bought my first Mac , i've always had Dell or HP , I am age 61 and the first few hours I was on this Mac air I didn't think I could get used to it but I watched several of your videos and now I LOVE IT ..thanks

[@margtaylor2049]

This was awesome!! I am a new MacBook Pro user of 18 months & have had 18 months of frustration up until today.. Thank You. Your site was highly recommended to me & I recommend same to anyone in the same boat!!

[@ashleydawn8821]

David, thank you! Thank you for making these tutorials easy, informative, and free. I just switched from PC to Mac and was intimidated to learn it until I found your videos. Now I look forward to class and to discovering all the amazing things my Mac can do. I'm so grateful. Thank you!

[@brwn16eyes]

Thank you David. I've had my macbook pro for some time now and never considered classes before stumbling across your channel. Needless to say, my system was under used and under appreciated until now. I can't get enough of your classes and your style of teaching. Thanks again!

[@markcollier1932]

That is so great to hear! Glad you found us!

[@RNENOC]

I'm impressed!!! You are so good to explain everything, so clear and specific. Thank you very much for taking the time to share this complete classes. Sure I subscribed David, and liked every video i've seen, actually this is the second, but I'll go for more. Bye!!

[@sddoumbia]

Thanks Davis I m writing from Dubai I hope I could attend your online classes. Time difference is huge. Byway I could get summary of last class. God bless you.

[@markcollier1932]

Thanks so much! Which class are you referring to?

[@Raymx3]

Got my first mac earlier this week and your channel has been SOOOOO helpful to me, especially after being on windows for 18 years. Thank you!!!

[@RahulRamesh2001]

Planning to buy a macbook pro. Watching your videos to get accustomed to the os. Your videos are great. Thanks.

[@megatubeism]

I very much enjoyed your class. I had been very disappointed on all the OSX after 10.6.8, but El Capitán is working extremely well, even in my old iMac (early 2008), with only 2.66 GHz and 4 GB of RAM. Thanks again for your instructions

[@FAKEIED]

Love your videos and the way you interact... definitely one of the best narrators out there.. Thumbs up !

[@guntergys]

As I was already running on the beta version of EL CAPITAN, I was looking forward to your class today. Great stuff... Thanks for this! (y)

[@llaymard]

Another excellent tutorial. Terrific work by a very dynamic teacher.

[@seriously3789]

I just updated and some people told me that this was good, and it just came to my mind to check your channel for a tutorial or new features video xD

[@markcollier1932]

+seriously Thanks for checking! :)

[@trocka58]

Thank you for your classes and for making them free to us newbies. I promise when its time to spend $ to grow my knowledge base, youll be getting some of it :)

[@unlokia]

David, you are the master of Mac tutorials, and we SALUTE you! God bless you and thank you for all the effort and time you GIVE AWAY! :) Matthew, England.

[@gavinvulpis933]

This tutorial is so informing , I will always come back to see others like it

[@KirbyYoung]

You're a good teacher David. I have been using Windows hardly for all my life. Thinking about buying a Macbook air recently. And I just can't wait for mine. You have earned 1 more subscriber and LIKES from me.

[@dagmar5280]

Thanks so much for this video. I almost had the dual screen but missed something and you made it clear!! And so many more detail that weren't made evident. Good work!!!!!!

[@collegebiologygirl12]

I love the split screen! As a student it's amazing. I keep safari smaller to the side and my paper on the other. And I also keep messages and messenger for Facebook side by side at times

[@robinburton9575]

I always learn so much from your videos. I've got friends subscribed to you now so they will stop bugging me. Wish you had a specific class on color wheel issues. I need major help. KEEP BEING AWESOME!!! 👏🏼👏🏼

[@Youtubedotcomma]

Tim Cook defo should get you a new Mac for sure! Great vid as always

[@gege08]

Thanks for the vid. I just updated my MBA and surely, your tutorial helped a lot. Keep it up. Greetings from the Middle East

[@markcollier1932]

+gege08 Thanks, gege08! We love to hear that!

[@faeriequeene8528]

Hi David. Thank you. Because of your videos, I learned so much about Mac and OS X. You are awesome! More power to you and your channel. xoxo

[@TortuguitaTurca]

Thank you for ALL your tutorials! I learned so many lessons today!

[@jacquesmarino7757]

Pity we can't see you David in that one - as it really adds a bit of cheekiness to your -as usual- brilliant video.

[@lensherlinski9273]

Nice video, I just upgraded to El Capitan from Lion, and at present not a happy camper. In all the time with Lion OS never had a problem, now I have an OS that constantly crashes on me. Downloaded El Capitan twice, not looking forward to erasing my whole hard drive and putting it on back up external HD, but it seems this is my only alternative. You still get a thumbs up.

[@AndreaWalen]

I love how detailed you are! Thanks so much for all your help!!!

[@syedjaffery5391]

David Hi from London... i stumbled onto you and its been great!! Great classes...

[@susankirk6068]

WOW!!!!!!!!! Thank you to all of us who struggle to get more info! Very helpful. Used to depend on One:One service with Apple. Sorry that they no longer make that available. Your product may help me out even more!

[@TheHeidi61]

David, thank you ever so much for all your precious tutorial ! they come so handy ! greetings from Switzerland

[@smilesmakesunshine]

I really enjoyed this tutorial. I am a PC owner currently but love my iPhone, and iPad which is on it's last limb actually. But I will be purchasing my very first MBPwR in the coming month!! I am very excited!! This tutorial was very helpful!! Definitely subscribed!!

[@beljuhaus3778]

Great class. Even though I've been playing with the beta for almost a month there were quite a few features that I simply didn't know about. Great job!

[@mulluti123]

nice!!! all my frustrations gone! split screen to use google translate all the time and not a crazy noise chaos when opening numerous audio websites and then freak out when you lose them by accidentally swiping it into another space ( I know I could just use then mute button but anyway....) can't wait to upgrade

[@adina32mam]

Dave you are the best,with you i learn a lot about Mac,Thanks

[@haveyoueverwondered23]

Hey David, really appreciate the quality vids, keep up the good work :)

[@markcollier1932]

Thanks CarMadDad! I'll pass that along to David!

[@gaylefox1227]

Hi David...new iMac user here! For all seasoned users, please look away (maybe if I type softly no one will notice my dumb question) lol. I have so much to learn, but here it is >> I notice that on your videos, every time you scroll through the bottom (tray?) it rolls up like a roller coaster. How can I make mine do that? Ty...really appreciate all the info you have for us here!

[@laurelgullion105]

Thanks a bunch David, I try to find information first on the new stuff before I download it to my mac laptop. I was so grateful to have the info on Yosemite -which I refused to download. I'm not sure that I will use some of what El Captain offers but am happier with what you have shared on your page.

[@jannylaine5696]

Thanks so much for this great tutorial. I always use your tutorials to learn more about using my Mac.

[@northwindkey]

I didn't use to like Mac. Mountain Lion was the first version I learned to appreciate. And each version is better than the last. Now, I like OS X almost as much as Windows, and better than Ubuntu. This class has really helped me to learn how to use it. I need to use Mac for coding, so I use it in Virtualbox.

[@49Macman]

Thanks, Dave! I didn't know about this useful feature until now. However, I couldn't find those things in sys prefs like you did. I just held the green window button down and it worked. I may have a later version or something. Thanks again.

[@britthansen5987]

Thank you so very much, David! You explained everything so well. I am grateful for all your help. Greetings from Norway

[@Orsilina]

Great video!!!👍👍👍 I recently purchased a Mac laptop and am currently downloading El Capitan. Thanks a million for all the useful information!!! 😄

[@craigbrown3269]

Thanks you’re videos are so helpful and easy to understand I’m new to MacBook Air. Even though I’ve been using everything else Apple for years I’ve been using windows and had no clue how to use macOS so thanks and keep up the good work!

[@janmartin4864]

Great video David. Really enjoy your teaching methods. Thanks heaps from down under xxxxx

[@markjayne935]

I have a mac mini running on yosemite on 4GB ram, which i purchased in may this year. I was considering upgrading to the new operating system until i looked at some of the reviews on El Capitan. The new operating system apparently should run fine on macs that have been running on yosemite and certainly should run on mine however some people have experienced their mac running much slower, one mac book pro user said that it made their mac unusable due to it lagging so much in even just typing up their review and this was on a fairly new machine!. Other issues such as much increased battery consumption have been reported. Someone else using a mac mini has said their mac had become really slow. The reviews have been very mixed, some are very happy with the increased speed while others have regretted upgrading. As i am more than happy with what i have I'm not taking the risk as yet until these issues have been addressed. Thank you David and team for what you do, you really helped me in learning how to use my mac after years of using MS windows. -Mark.

[@markcollier1932]

I have two Mac Minis and they are both running great with El Capitan, but there's certainly no rush for you to update. You'll be just fine with Yosemite as well.

[@markjayne935]

+Mark Collier Yes mark i would agree, there is not a lot of difference between yosemite and el capitan as i can gather. Think the mac mini is a great machine, saved us a lot of money on electricity too as the lap top we were using certainly was not as economical to run. I will stay with yosemite for now.

[@neilmorris9434]

THANKS DAVID FOR ALL WHAT YOU COVERED

[@markcollier1932]

On behalf of David, you're welcome Neil!

[@iYaTVwwwiyatkdcom]

Great Video Sir. Keep them coming! Very Clear and informative

[@brnncaeano]

Thank you for the updates, Dave! Stay awesome! :D

[@browneyes9704]

absolutely loved this video, thanks for the advice and I love your grandpa

[@FanofLocke627]

As usual, David, AMAZING presentation! Keep up the great work!

[@sonhadorpr]

I'm still new on the Mac. Thanks for this video!!

[@andregouws3673]

Hi David, thank you for this. This is a quality resource and added tremendous value to my productivity.

[@navy5784]

David Cox: I represent the ultimate in OS clashes: I am a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Novell administrator, and my lovely wife of 35 years is a nationally celebrated Art teacher, completing her Doctorate in Elementary Art education. To put it lightly, I am an IBM/Windows/Linux guy, she is a Apple girl. Who says the two can't coexist? I recently bought my wife an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) to go with her MacBook Pro. Incorporating this iMac into my Microsoft centric world makes me feel a bit like I am drinking out of a fire hose. I wanted to give a shout out to you thanking you for your videos and user guides, they are really helping me get over my steep learning curve. (BTW... what happened to the El Capitan user guide referenced above? The link leads to a closing web page... was it moved?) I have one other problem that I unfortunately fear that even you can't help me with. In using this iMac to get up to speed on all things Apple, I have discovered a troubling issue... I am really beginning to like it. Thanks again for your help!

[@jackschafstall5155]

Great video and thanks for the lessen David. I resently purchased "INTENSIFY" from the app store and it integrates into the "extensions" of the Photos app. Thanks again for the great demo and helpful advise.

[@TechTalkAmerica]

+Jack Schafstall thanks I'll check it out.

[@Parth271283]

+David A. Cox why Apple do not provide features like "Insert Table in iMail" it's really painful to insert table in Mail.... :(

[@markcollier1932]

+parth rawal We don't work for Apple, so we can't answer that question unfortunately.

[@Parth271283]

+Mark Collier agreed, was looking for some kind of explanation, that why they are not doing it...that's all. Thanks anyaways.

[@markcollier1932]

+parth rawal Good question. Unfortunately I really don't know. My only guess (and it's just that) is that it's not a feature that's in high demand.

[@leighhardy1392]

Thanks so much for the simplicity of this video! Great job!

[@SteveW60ish]

Thanks David - as a long-standing Windows user you make the Mac quite understandable and appealing. GUI is important to me and I simply do not like the one that is with W10. I swore if Windows possed me off again after W8 I would transfer platforms - well - I am pretty much there!

[@TheBazuko2001]

Thanks Man, You have just made my hectic life a lot more easier!!!

[@marcrodgers3517]

this was very useful and a great tutorial.... thanks for the PDF as well... Good Job

[@markcollier1932]

+Marc Rodgers Thanks! I'll be sure to pass that along to David. Thanks for your compliment and your time!

[@brandonhayes161]

El Capitan is so amazing thank you for this video so now we can use it to it's full potential! I subbed

[@MagnusIXX]

Brilliant tutorial of new features!!!

[@markcollier1932]

Thanks so much James! Glad you're here.

[@EDBybee]

Thanks for the great video David. As with everything you have produced, it was informative and entertaining.

[@jdemaestri4300]

Extremely helpful in understanding my Mac.Thank you very much.

[@Mr2at]

"And those with A.D.D" lol, you've nailed the symptoms.

[@karlriley5248]

Really just what I was looking for, thank you. User guide no longer available??

[@andredemaio2884]

Hi David! That video was perfect and very usefull . Thanks from Argentina!

[@joannafoster5037]

I found this tutorial very helpful; clear and concise

[@JigmeTsultrin]

Thank you David! You always have pretty cool lesson for us.

[@alhiingle2778]

I found this video really helpful. Thanks

[@daithimc]

Thank you David, love your work!

[@maxgreene2382]

"DAVID"! BLESS YOU after three years trying, I now, via your Par Excellent el Capitan Training can see the light at the end of a Three year Journey' to understanding Final Cut, I produced Excellent Wedding Video's on P.C via Pinnacle and other programmes, on retiring three years ago I Purchased 27inch )0SX 10 Apple Mac to produce video for pleasure, since then I have been trying to learn Final Cut,I am 83 yrs old. At last after watching your El Capitan Training, I am raring to GO GO Go. Excellent Work David IN Your Debt, tell me how to contribute. Aint Wealthy but always happy to pay my dues. Max Greene.

[@G37KING101SPEED]

just bought my first ever macbook pro 15 retina, and lol I'm still learning how to use it....that is why I'm watching this video hahaha

[@CrazyCarl2011]

Thank You from Nova Scotia Canada

[@beamerkk]

Excellent Presentation from a Newbie's point of view. I think I will be using this a lot.

[@evilphuk]

love this summary of the OS X features.

[@Chrissy4605]

Thanks for the lessons. I am a recent convert to Mac.

[@sunny7357]

you are awesome David! thanks for your tutorials

[@graemerichardson173]

Very handy video new to macs

[@oscarcintron4595]

Good Video, I found out a lot of things I would have discovered sooner or later, But I prefer Sooner! Well Done !!

[@abhishes]

photos in notes are really good when you are attending seminars/classes. you use your phone to take a pic and then embed the photo in the notes.

[@TechTalkAmerica]

+Abhishek Srivastava lol that implies you think you would be able to read my scribble.

[@jawojnicki]

Hi David. I tried to watch your live stream last Oct 1st at 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, but when I logged on to KZbin it said the video has been removed. This was about 9:50 pm so I was a bit late to the game but I assumed it would last at least a full hour. Your other live streams seem to appear as recorded videos on KZbin after you've completed them. There doesn't seem to be one for El Capitan. Did you actually do the livestream? Will it ever be on KZbin as prerecorded? Is there any other information in that live stream that didn't appear in this video? Thanks again for all your help

[@dominicandiva8]

Thank you so much, David for these Mac lessons. You have helped me out A LOT! :)

[@chrisboston2187]

Great stuff Dave Cox...so glad I started following you

[@FluffyForklift]

Thanks for what I can do with my "new" iMac! You are awesome

[@alcamorim]

Good Job David, great video. Very good indeed! Keep up the good work.

[@itaco8066]

Hey David! always a pleasure to see your tutorials! Are you planing to make a video on MacOS Sierra ??

[@ulisescastor947]

nice video its a great help for the users who don't have a lot of experience in mac thanks...! :)

[@Bruce1526]

Great video, and very helpful. Thanks, David!

[@isardriver]

hello there, thanks for all your classes, they're awesome and it helps me to learn the computer/apple products faster and easier. would you recommend upgrading to el capitan?

[@petercenturion]

As always, simply outstanding!

[@30petlin30]

Found your site today, enjoyed it plus very enlightening. Regards Peter Jones

[@edoliveros6932]

Thank you for the video tutorial helps a lot

[@yelgirw]

As always superb tutorial.

[@apryknight6092]

Nice...good lesson... Thanks David.

[@edrambeau1534]

Here's another change in El Capitan. In Yosemite, you can use Disk Utility to erase a Rewritable CD. But in El Capitan, in order to erase a rewritable CD you need to do the following. Open the finder and select the CD. Then, while holding down the CONTROL KEY, click the trackpad and select ERASE REWRITABLE CD. Hope this helps.