El Capitan split screen mode works on older macs?

[shankar2]

Hey I have a mid 2009 macbook (white)

If i install El Capitan on it would split screen mode work on it ? Kindly let me know Thanks!

 

[shankar2]

Also does Microsoft office 2011 word work with split screen feature?

 

[valdikor]

Hey I have a mid 2009 macbook (white)

If i install El Capitan on it would split screen mode work on it ? Kindly let me know Thanks!

Yes, don't worry about that. Macs have "real" multitasking and they always have, they can run many apps at once, the split-screen view in El Capitan is just a new way to view/utilize it.
(it's actually very unlike multitasking in iOS 9 which is a new technological development that only the most powerful iOS devices can handle)

 

[oldmacs]

Hey I have a mid 2009 macbook (white)

If i install El Capitan on it would split screen mode work on it ? Kindly let me know Thanks!

It works on my 2009 iMac

 

[Shirasaki]

Split screen is of course no problem.
But I doubt Microsoft office 2011 can support this feature.

 

[hallux]

Split screen is of course no problem.
But I doubt Microsoft office 2011 can support this feature.

I have 14.5.7 (the latest update), it doesn't. Office 2016 DOES though.

 

[redheeler]

Hey I have a mid 2009 macbook (white)

If i install El Capitan on it would split screen mode work on it ? Kindly let me know Thanks!

It works on my late 2008 MacBook Air, and I'm sure it'll work on your MacBook. In fact, it should work on any Mac running El Capitan with 2 GB or more RAM.

Yes, don't worry about that. Macs have "real" multitasking and they always have, they can run many apps at once, the split-screen view in El Capitan is just a new way to view/utilize it.
(it's actually very unlike multitasking in iOS 9 which is a new technological development that only the most powerful iOS devices can handle)

Very early Macintoshes couldn't multitask, so they've haven't always been able to do that. The ability to multitask has been around a long time though, and I think many older iOS devices (such as the iPad Air, iPad mini 2, and iPhone 6+) are actually capable of Split View, but they've been excluded in order to push sales of new iPads.

 

[Rhinoevans]

I can not get Outlook 2016 to do split screen, but all others do (Word, PP, Excel, One-note)

 

[shankar2]

What about office 2011 can it work with split mode?

 

[hallux]

I have 14.5.7 (the latest update), it doesn't. Office 2016 DOES though.

What about office 2011 can it work with split mode?

Mine was post 6, yours was post 9. In short, no.

 

[McGiord]

does split view work like in Windows to place for example four Windows one at each corner?
I had been using Windows Magnet in all pre-El Capitan OS X, and would like to know if I can stop having that running.