I have a 2013 13" MBA ultimate, and get frequent beachballs, but they are very brief and don't seem to slow the machine down. really weird that you would see beachball with the PCI-e SSD.
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Beach ball frequency on Mavericks
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Re-installing or doing so called 'clean install' will not solve anything. Many peopl are having these issues with the beachball phenomenon. It is likely some sort of a bug which should be fixed soon.
You are not getting it, count yourself lucky
I have noticed this too, mainly in Safari. It doesn't actually cause a noticeable delay in performance but I am seeing the beach ball for a second here and there during use.
As far as I can tell it's not enough of an issue to cause noticeable performance problems but the fact that it randomly cropped up after 3 weeks with no issues is odd.
As far as I can tell it's not enough of an issue to cause noticeable performance problems but the fact that it randomly cropped up after 3 weeks with no issues is odd.
The thing is that there can of course be different cause for seeing the ”beach ball”. I think some in this thread are seeing it for different reason than others.
The thing is that since Mavericks the beach ball has started to show like a split second to then go away when the cursor is moved, and since the mouse cursor is mostly in motion when one is working it simply just ”blinks by”. The recent OS X 10.9.1 didn't help.
I have Glims installed in Safari, but I've seen it on computers running Mavericks without Glims, so I'm quite sure it's something else. But I will try to uninstall Glims to make sure.
The thing is that since Mavericks the beach ball has started to show like a split second to then go away when the cursor is moved, and since the mouse cursor is mostly in motion when one is working it simply just ”blinks by”. The recent OS X 10.9.1 didn't help.
I have Glims installed in Safari, but I've seen it on computers running Mavericks without Glims, so I'm quite sure it's something else. But I will try to uninstall Glims to make sure.
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I'm having this issue and it's almost March 2015. I have a refurb that Apple kindly sold me (cough, cough) for $700 after my HD tanked on my older large-chinned iMac. Mine is lagging badly even when I type (sometimes) and the beachball is coming up more and more. I don't want to upgrade to Yosemite, mainly for aesthetic reasons. It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen Apple put out. Steve must be spinning beachballs! I'm thinking refurb failing now. And I have no backups ever since those awful LaCie external backups failed. Bad power supply (known issue). Maybe I should upgrade.
Does Activity Monitor indicate that you are running out of memory, or show any unexpected CPU activity or disk activity?
As for external backup drives, I would buy drives from a manufacturer like Western Digital or Seagate or Samsung or Toshiba, not a rebrander like LaCie.
And it shouldn't be too disappointing that your backup drive failed. After all, it was a backup and you didn't lose any information. It's just time to get another backup drive. A relatively small cost in terms of money and time.
Sorry to hear about your problems, but that sounds line a different kind of beachball than the one I was talking about in that post. That was fixed in a subsequent Mavericks update (don't remember which one).
As suggested I would also start looking in Activity Monitor.app and see if something is eating more CPU than usual when the you see the beachball and/or if memory is low.
How much RAM do you have and which exact version of OS X?