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macOS Catalina Brings Back Expansion Slot Utility App Ahead of Mac Pro Launch

macOS Catalina (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/macos-10-15/), currently available to developers and public beta testers in a beta capacity, revives the defunct Expansion Slot Utility app ahead of the launch of the Mac Pro (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/mac-pro/).





The Expansion Slot Utility app is designed for managing and configuring PCI cards, and its return is clearly meant for the <!---->Mac Pro<!---->, which has a total of eight PCIe expansion slots that Mac users can work with.





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The Expansion Slot Utility app was discontinued years ago following the launch of the 2008 <!---->Mac Pro<!----> but the new 2.0 version is back for the modular <!---->Mac Pro<!---->.





<center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New <!---->Mac Pro<!----> Details from Catalina Beta 2
 - Mac7,1 is codenamed J160
 - Expansion Slot Utility app lives again
 - Possible config names
 - Apple Pro Display XDR (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/displays/) Artwork
Also ICYMI: AMD GPUs /cc @siracusa (https://twitter.com/siracusa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) @_inside (https://twitter.com/_inside?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) @stroughtonsmith (https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) https://t.co/fyPbeTbBe9 (https://t.co/fyPbeTbBe9) https://t.co/Sot6kHDtnF (https://t.co/Sot6kHDtnF) pic.twitter.com/WfWu0eoYfN (https://t.co/WfWu0eoYfN)</p>&mdash; Steve Moser (@SteveMoser) July 1, 2019 (https://twitter.com/SteveMoser/status/1145735510373097472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </center>





<center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Expansion Slot Utility in <!---->macOS Catalina<!---->, for the new <!---->Mac Pro<!----> pic.twitter.com/SL0YHS50id (https://t.co/SL0YHS50id)</p>&mdash; Guilherme Rambo (@_inside) July 1, 2019 (https://twitter.com/_inside/status/1145761278251741185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> </center>


Signs of the Expansion Slot Utility app are hidden in the second <!---->macOS Catalina<!----> beta, and when the <!---->Mac Pro<!----> becomes available at some point this fall, <!---->Mac Pro<!----> users will be able to take advantage of the utility.

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