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M1 Mac performance (Tahoe)

I remember getting the first Retina display MacBook Pro in 2012 and Mac OS Lion had some noticeable stuttering. I'm confident that Tahoe will get UI performance improvements but it doesn't give the new MacOS the best first impressions. lol.

I'm currently on a M1 MacBook Air running MacOS 15 and I will upgrade to Tahoe eventually when these UI performance kinks are smoothed out. ;)
 
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Woodcrest64 said:
I remember getting the first Retina display MacBook Pro in 2012 and Mac OS Lion had some noticeable stuttering. I'm confident that Tahoe will get UI performance improvements but it doesn't give the new MacOS the best first impressions. lol.

I'm currently on a M1 MacBook Air running MacOS 15 and I will upgrade to Tahoe eventually when these UI performance kinks are smoothed out. ;)
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I had one of those too! Preordered a Retina 15" in 2012. The Mountain Lion beta was much better than the shipping release of Lion. ML rewrote a lot of the GPU calls to be more efficient.

I'm wondering if the same thing is not the case - the new UI in Tahoe seems to be doing a lot more JIT rendering of the UI and I wonder if the split targeting between supporting the Intel Mac GPU calls and the newer Apple Silicon GPUs is resulting in a subpar experience.

I will also say my M1 Pro is much smoother after a boot into Recovery and a repair of the disk with Disk Utility.
 
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8GB RAM and as I mentioned previously, Apple Intelligence, definitely noticeably degraded my MBP M1 512GB from running ‘like new’. Times that I disabled it and let it remove itself, it ran fine again. Particularly things like Parallels - though it was only things like that which suffered with AI turned on. Anyway, five years was my planned service life of my MBP, December 2020 til this summer - I cut it a bit short because I really, really wanted an iPad Pro
 
I`ve installed Tahoe on a M1 Max Macbook Pro and a 32 GB RAM Mac Mini Pro M2, Apple intelligence disabled on both.
I've had absolutely no performance issues on either.
 
M1 Air with 16GB RAM. This is the third day after installation. Spotlight indexing did not hit the performance in the first day, which is good. But later I found that with my ordinary workflow, Tahoe often hit yellow memory pressure while Sequoia rarely reaches. And the animation when switching windows with Stage Manager enabled is unbearably slow and laggy.
 
M1 Air with 16GB RAM. I cannot find words for this. I will rollback to Sequoia this weekend. This doesnt even feel like a Beta, it's an Alpha. It is sluggish, animation stutter, batterylife is 1h shorter... For what? For transparent app icons? Is this the priority now? It feels like a cheap Android phone and not a Macbook anymore.
Besides all of this... rounded corners. I mean. Every screen is a rectangle. Why rounded corners... This is such a step back. I'm on OSX/ MacOS since 2010. And I have used every Windows. This is Vista. I cannot believe that this crap comes from Apple.
 
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Just an update to my previous post: I've just upgraded to Tahoe on my Mac Mini M1 8 Gb and the overall experience was a pleasant one - no issues encountered so far. Later today I'm going to upgrade my Macbook Air M1, too and will come back with a feedback. Just a brief note here: my Apple Intelligence has always been disabled.
 
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My MBA 16GB/256GB was updated using the full install package. It's been working fine so far, no issues, no crashes. Apple Intelligence is disabled. I like the new fresh look.
 
My MBP is M1 Max with 64GB memory 2T HD, and I am also suffering from performance issue now. The fans of my macbook started to spin and the surface is getting warmer. My fans haven't been ran for most of time during past years.

BTW, if you have bartender running, quit it, it might help for now. Might need to wait for an updated version of Bartender. Somehow, even quited bartender, I can still feel the lag time to time.
 
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This is one of the worst launches ever. I do remember the Tiger launch which was a disaster and yet it grew into one of the most loved releases ever.
 
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mabaker said:
This is one of the worst launches ever. I do remember the Tiger launch which was a disaster and yet it grew into one of the most loved releases ever.
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With a yearly cycle, I don't think it'll stick around long enough to be loved.

By the time it becomes stable*, there'll be rumors and breathless anticipation of what the next version will bring.

* Like in 2026? Haha I get it now. They tried to tell us but did we listen?
 
Hey everybody with performance issues...

I want you to test something. I just noticed a process called contactsd is using a decent amount of CPU time. Between 10-20% and it seems to be doing so for no reason. I think it's trying to sync my contacts. I was just on a call on my phone and noticed the contact photo on my phone looked like it kept refreshing for no reason. Like doing that flip action it does when youve updated the picture but it wasn't updated. Can anybody else confirm?
 
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Hey everybody with performance issues...

I want you to test something. I just noticed a process called contactsd is using a decent amount of CPU time. Between 10-20% and it seems to be doing so for no reason. I think it's trying to sync my contacts. I was just on a call on my phone and noticed the contact photo on my phone looked like it kept refreshing for no reason. Like doing that flip action it does when youve updated the picture but it wasn't updated. Can anybody else confirm?
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No, CPU usage on my M1 16GB is pretty flat <10% total most of the time. contactsd not anywhere in the top CPU processes. I get beach balls at random nevertheless.

Anyone else notices the text flickering when you move Finder window around? I'm using dark mode and list view. (Happens in other apps, too. I'm just citing Finder as an example because everyone has it.) Maybe it was like this on Sequoia too but I didn't pay attention.
 
A trend seems here to appear. Those with apple intelligence disabled are satisfied with Tahoe's performance.
Those with it enabled are suffering.
It would be interesting to see if this is really the case.
 
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M1 16GB here, updated the day Tahoe was out. I had a first day a bit laggy but now everything is smooth, animations are great, no change on battery, CPU & RAM all good (and I'm a heavy user so that was surprising to me, I anticipated some issues). All good and I kinda like the look and feel. So I'm happy camper.
Oh and FWIW Apple Intelligence still enabled (but I don't use honestly).
 
thebart said:
No, CPU usage on my M1 16GB is pretty flat <10% total most of the time. contactsd not anywhere in the top CPU processes. I get beach balls at random nevertheless.

Anyone else notices the text flickering when you move Finder window around? I'm using dark mode and list view. (Happens in other apps, too. I'm just citing Finder as an example because everyone has it.) Maybe it was like this on Sequoia too but I didn't pay attention.
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Pricing flickering when using Application launch (Spotlight). Yes, there are stuttering and flickering with the UI with M1 MacBook Pro 16” while my lesser powered M3 MacBook Air does not…

Planned obsolescence anyone…?
 
It looks that you are suffering from the usual pain of early adopters. Just wait a couple of point versions and things should improve :)

Also, M1s are almost 5 years old so they won't last forever (I mean, Apple does not want that). Current hardware cap of Tahoe is 2019, so I won't be surprised if we start seeing M1 dropping support in couple of years.

In any case, not jumping to 26 anytime soon on my M2 Pro.
 
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robertosh said:
It looks that you are suffering from the usual pain of early adopters. Just wait a couple of point versions and things should improve :)

Also, M1s are almost 5 years old so they won't last forever (I mean, Apple does not want that). Current hardware cap of Tahoe is 2019, so I won't be surprised if we start seeing M1 dropping support in couple of years.

In any case, not jumping to 26 anytime soon on my M2 Pro.
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Come on. I have seen so many planned obsolete stuff. Most of the time it was worth it. But not for this. They could have made something worthwile. Instead they chose to put all their manpower into AI so that we have improved Genmojis now. And with the last 100 bucks they hired some poor fruit ninja dev to "improve" the theme. Liquid glass.
 
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This Liquid Glass is hideous. Thats the first thing. Second thing is, it runs butter smooth and fast on my iMac M3, 24gb, 4 ports system. I have not seen any lag or crashes at all yet. Surprisingly fast and smooth for a first release.
 
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