El Capitan’s third public beta is now available

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OS X El Capitan is coming
OS X El Capitan is coming
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The third public beta of Apple’s upcoming operating system, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, was seeded to public testers today, one week after the release of El Capitan beta 2.

The new operating system which was announced at WWDC, was first made available to public testers at the beginning of the month, after developers have been testing it since it was revealed at WWDC in June. The release notes for El Capitan public beta 3 don’t mention any major new features, but likely includes a number of bug fixes and performance improvements.

Public beta testers can register to install the new OS X 10.11 software on their machines by visiting Apple’s Beta Software Program website. Once registered, El Capitan can be installed on your main Mac, though we recommend you create a separate partition to try it on, rather than opening your entire hard drive to the bugs and glitches that Apple is working to fix.

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