Many years ago, in 2008 specifically, from Apple they officially discontinued their utility to expand memory slots, mainly due to the fact that the equipment of the time stopped being expandable by the user (or at least in a simple way).
However, with the presentation of the new Mac Pro 2019, being a team that is also modular, since the firm clarifies that you can improve its components internally in a fairly easy way if you wish, They have decided to reinstate this tool in the latest beta of macOS Catalina, in order to make expanding the features of this equipment even easier.
Apple re-includes slot expansion utility in latest macOS Catalina beta
As we have been able to know thanks to the information published by the medium MacRumors, apparently with the launch of macOS Catalina 2 beta 10.15 for developers, it has been seen how in addition to the additional novelties in terms of design, This application has also returned in version 2.0 (previous versions came with Intel-based Macs).
On this occasion, apparently this utility will serve future users of the new Mac Pro 2019, as they will be the only ones who initially have the possibility of using it. It has a relatively simple interface and that It will allow you to configure different PCI cards to suit you, in addition to helping you Indicating if, for example, you must change the slot one of them to obtain better performance (remember that the new Mac Pro includes 8 different slots to insert PCI cards).
At the moment, it seems that although this renewed application is present in the code of the macOS Catalina 10.15 beta, It is still not visible to most users, as we must remember that it is exclusively intended for the new Mac Pro 2019, which is why even if you have this beta installed on your Mac, you will not find the utility among your applications either. However, through Twitter we have been able to see some screenshots of it thanks to various developers:
Expansion Slot Utility in macOS Catalina, for the new Mac Pro pic.twitter.com/SL0YHS50id
- Guilherme Rambo (@_inside) July 1, 2019
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