MacBook System Gets An Upgrade

While everyone seems to focus on the latest iOS software for iPhone and iPads, Apple also made some quality modifications of the MacBook operating system which adopts easier ways to share, search and control home devices.

Apple executive Craig Federighi said they are making it easier for various devices to work together, even though the Mac and mobile systems are separate. You can share songs, movies and books you purchase with your entire family, and you can sync photos more easily across several devices. Macs and mobile gadgets will share more features, and you can exchange files between the two more easily and even make phone calls from your Mac.

The free updates will come this fall, though app developers get a test version during the Worldwide Developers Conference 2014 (WWDC 14) as the company opened its 25th annual developers conference in San Francisco.

Here are the highlights:

• The next MacBook system will be called Yosemite, after the national park, now that Apple is naming it after California locales rather than cats.
• You’ll be able to search for content on the computer and on the Internet at once, similar to a feature available with Microsoft’s Windows 8.
• Apple is expanding its iCloud storage service so that you can store and sync files of any type, not just the ones designed specifically for iCloud. It’s similar to how other services such as Dropbox let you work with the same files on multiple devices more easily.
• Mail Drop feature will make it easier to send large files. Instead of pushing the entire file by email and overloading mail servers, the Mac will create a link that the recipient can click for the full file.
• The MacBook’s Safari Web browser will have more privacy controls and ways to share links more easily.