I disagree, it is much more performant (loads nearly instantly, no delays when moving around the UI, never causes high CPU usage, low RAM usage) compared to Teams
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Microsoft Teams - does it perform better on M1?
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Teams is frustratingly slow on my 2020 Intel i5 (Windows). For RAM usage, being Chromium-based, it will use as much as it can depending on what the system has available. So seeing a high amount isn't necessarily a problem. It will give it up when it needs to. See How Chromium manages memory (Microsoft).
Teams on the M1 doesn’t make my system degrade and I’m doing some huge installs right now. XCode and VS for Mac.
I love Teams on my M1 MBA. It works flawlessly and is fast. Quite a few colleagues of mine complain about Teams on Windows - that it freezes, it is slow, causes the fans to go off etc. In fact two days ago when Teams had an outage, it was working fine on my MacBook. And the MBA runs nice and cool.
I'm on Teams right now with a video chat with multiple people, and multiple browser windows, with no hiccups.
Sounds like Teams isn't using hardware video encoder/decoder if laptop is heating up. I'd check here to make sure the requirements and settings are in place.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/hardware-decoders-and-encoders
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/hardware-decoders-and-encoders
I use MS Teams on a MBA M1, 16GB of RAM.
It works much better than on my work laptop, i5 with 16GB of RAM.
Only thing that I am concerned, is that when Teams video call is running on MBA it’s spiking the temperature between 60C - 70C .... concerned about the effects on the long run as I have Teams video calls about 4-5 hours each day.
It works much better than on my work laptop, i5 with 16GB of RAM.
Only thing that I am concerned, is that when Teams video call is running on MBA it’s spiking the temperature between 60C - 70C .... concerned about the effects on the long run as I have Teams video calls about 4-5 hours each day.
I have the same configuration, and have never seen a temperature spike. I use Teams, Zoom, Webex - all video calls.
I have a 16gb M1 Mac mini and an LG Ultrafine 5K display. I run teams with screensharing for hours every day without any problems. No fan noise at all. My old Intel i7 Macbook Pro 13 inch from 2019 hooked up to an Blackmagic eGPU to the same display had the temperature and fan noise of a rocket launch under the same load.