The application does (sort-of) show the 2 contributions to the Fusion drive, but it provides less information than does Micromat’s MachineProfile, which displays both the rotating platter internal SATA drive (5800 rpm) and the PCI module SSD (28 GB — amazing that we now think of that as being “small.”

People at OWC tells me I’d get the best performance from an OWC PCIe SSD, which isn’t TOO much more than a SATA module, leaving the current internal rotating platter drive in place. I could reinstall Mojave on it, but of course it wouldn’t be as snappy as it is now without a tiny PCI-e “turbocharger” SSD as part of the same logical volume. I don’t have a bunch or 32-bit apps hanging around, however, and I doubt that if I installed Catalina on the Aura-Pro 2X 1 GB PCI-e SSD I ‘d be booting to that laggardly internal rotating platter drive very often.

I have one other (sort of) related question, although we’ve wandered pretty far afield from why SEE Finance can take so long to load as an app.

I still don’t understand why Apple is insisting that we no longer run 32-bit apps. Clearly the hardware can still run them. Does crafting the new OS to permit that somehow limit its capability, or prevent some security protections from working correctly?

Thanks so much,

Jim Robertson