Calling all 1TB Touchbar MBP owners. Beach Ball Lag?

[NovemberWhiskey]

Any other 1TB Touchbar owners experiencing lag on their machines? Particularly in Safari when typing in the address bar, clicking on your favorites bar, switching between tabs...

I get considerable lag. 3-4 seconds delay before text is input, or the action completes (switching tabs, opening a new page), where the beachball pops up and spins.

I had this happen on 2 1TB machines, but not on any other configurations. Both are refurbs, so I don't know if that is a factor.

Both were fine in the first few days, but started having the problem after 1 week.

 

[MrGuder]

Are you on the latest version of Sierra and Safari?

I have a 2.7GHz 512 SSD and I'm not getting any lag from those areas you mentioned, the only place I'm getting the beach ball is when watching videos. I can't figure it out because some HD video on you tube will play perfectly in 1080 but others will start playing and then the cursor will all of a sudden turn into the spinning beach ball and it freezes up safari, I can't use the esc key, I can't use the cursor at all, the only thing I can do is close the laptop, wait 5-8 seconds open the lid and the video will start playing again and the cursor re-appears. This has happened about 6 or 8 times and I can't figure out why. Is it because the internal processor is slow? or is it a software update needed?

I'm in the latest Sierra 10.12.4 and Safari 10.1

 

[NovemberWhiskey]

Yes. I am up to date.

Maybe it is software if you are experiencing it too. You don't get it when switching tabs, typing in the address bar, or clicking on your favorites bar?

 

[campyguy]

2013 late-2013 rMBP 2.6GHz/16GB/1TB. Zero lag, no issues whatsoever. Ever.

 

[50calty]

Only time I've seen the beach ball is running files in Adobe Creative Cloud, but those are large files. Everything else is super fast.

 

[MrGuder]

Yes. I am up to date.

Maybe it is software if you are experiencing it too. You don't get it when switching tabs, typing in the address bar, or clicking on your favorites bar?

Right, I don't get it doing any of that.

 

[Codybby1]

1TB / 460 machine here and I get random lag at times, mostly related to safari.

 

[NovemberWhiskey]

1TB / 460 machine here and I get random lag at times, mostly related to safari.

Beach ball?

 

[Codybby1]

Beach ball?

It normally makes an appearance but not always.

 

[Sanpete]

I had some beach balls in Safari early on, much less frequently now. But I rarely restart it, maybe once every couple weeks. When I get one I close the active tab and reopen it from history, and that's usually it. (Once I found a webpage that it just wouldn't deal with.) Don't think the configuration is likely to matter in this, but I have the 2.7 512 455.

 

[Boneheadxan]

1TB:460:2.9GHz machine here. I haven't noticed any lag in the situations that you've mentioned. I sometimes get scrolling lag on content heavy pages until a page fully loads in Safari (I get this on the 12" rMB as well) and a tiny lag sometimes when switching between apps.

 

[darkmaxdevil]

I don't have any lag as well.

 

[Marshall73]

Safari keychain when used with iCloud lags all the time for me. Has to be something to do with the Touch ID functionality.

 

[reco]

mac book pro touch 1TB 16GB RAM even with 10.12.6 still beach ball. i guess this depends how big your chain is. i have 1984 items in the icloud keychain.

 

[Caidiaz]

I thought I was the only one with this issue, I have a 13" 512Gb 16Gb of ram WITH the Touch Bar and the beach ball only pops up in Safari, when opening a new tab and clicking on the address bar just like you mentioned. It's obviously a software problem since there's no way a machine 2 years old could start showing aging.