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Spinning Beach Ball On New MacBook

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Bulldog3777

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How long does it last? I am on the Fire Vault page and did not select to set it up.
 
Had the same problem, I had to restart it and everything went fine after that.
 
Happened to me as well. I forced a restart but like others on the forum, just give it a little time. I upgraded to the new software and reset the PRAM. I think it helped give it a fresh start.
 
Bulldog3777 said:
How long does it last? I am on the Fire Vault page and did not select to set it up.
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I saw it on initial set up, restarted and it worked. But I have also seen it when Mail app was running, and it blocked all apps UNTIL I forced quit mail.

This tells me there is a firmware issue with the new drive/channel that is blocking the entire kernel. Not good for now, but I'm sure will be fixed with firmware update.
 
I had the beachball several times during initial setup even on the very first screen. When I got one on FileVault, I restarted and everything went smoother, now finishing FileVault after logging into OS X.
 
Spinning Beach Ball for 25 minutes after deselecting fire vault. Now updating to 10.10.3.
 
The software update today seems to have fixed some flakiness that has started for me. I will have to wait and see if the improvement is from update reset or the update actually fixed something.
 
From another thread, see bolded portion:

jazz1 said:
I've only had mine for a few hours of use. Most of that time has been use installing software. I'm now downloading Office Beta.

It got hot while updating the OS and then running other installs. But it was only a small area of the bottom of the case, near the back edge. It did not get uncomfortable hot on my jeans. Maybe shorts would be a different story. But in general use it runs cool to warm.

Clean My Mac 3 runs fine, as does f.lux.

A couple of oddities at the Apple Store during the initial setup. First FileVault was on as default. Also for some reason we had to add another fake user, and then delete the fake user during some part of the initial setup. No it was not our mistake, the Apple guy said it was a anomaly that happened for everyone. Odd.

All in all I'm very happy with this purchase.
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I have been doing a lot of side by side with this mac and the rMBP. Obviously the pro will be more powerful, but I am noticing significantly more lag with the rMB. Even a simple thing like viewing photos is the photos app has noticable lag. I love the damn keyboard so much though.
 
mattopotamus said:
I have been doing a lot of side by side with this mac and the rMBP. Obviously the pro will be more powerful, but I am noticing significantly more lag with the rMB. Even a simple thing like viewing photos is the photos app has noticable lag. I love the damn keyboard so much though.
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Did you get the 1.1? I'm not getting any lag on Photos with the 1.2 and we have a lot of pictures. I'm also switching back and forth between the rMB and my 2012 rMBP 13 and if anything, the rMB feels snappier. Even the animations are more fluid.
 
FWIW, I'm not getting any lag at all on mine, and I've got the base model.

I DID have some minor stutter in webpages while I was setting it up, but you have to realize it was indexing, I had several programs simultaneously installing, I was streaming Spotify, and I was doing the system updates.
 
Cvx5832 said:
Did you get the 1.1? I'm not getting any lag on Photos with the 1.2 and we have a lot of pictures. I'm also switching back and forth between the rMB and my 2012 rMBP 13 and if anything, the rMB feels snappier. Even the animations are more fluid.
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Mindinversion said:
FWIW, I'm not getting any lag at all on mine, and I've got the base model.

I DID have some minor stutter in webpages while I was setting it up, but you have to realize it was indexing, I had several programs simultaneously installing, I was streaming Spotify, and I was doing the system updates.
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it is the 1.1

I really think it is the same UI lag that I experience on the rMBP. Maybe I am just more critical of the rMB b.c I have them both, and am mentally messing with myself haha.

I again cannot stress enough how much I love this keyboard. I basically just want to type stuff to type stuff for no reason at all....

I may have to reformat. I am having the read/write speeds others mentioned. Since updating to 10.10.3 the speed for read/write are 80/150 :(
 
mattopotamus said:
it is the 1.1

I really think it is the same UI lag that I experience on the rMBP. Maybe I am just more critical of the rMB b.c I have them both, and am mentally messing with myself haha.

I again cannot stress enough how much I love this keyboard. I basically just want to type stuff to type stuff for no reason at all....

I may have to reformat. I am having the read/write speeds others mentioned. Since updating to 10.10.3 the speed for read/write are 80/150 :(
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Those speeds are way too low - something's not right. :(
 
My neighbor brought over his new Macbook so I could help them install his software and we saw the spinning ball way too much! We declined Firevault . . . . . .

He emailed me later last night and said that his images in dropbox were taking "forever" to sync. He is not a happy camper:rolleyes:
 
mattopotamus said:
they were 500/1000, and as soon as I updated to 10.10.3 they dropped.
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This is what I'm getting on 10.10.3 with FV2 enabled:

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newellj said:
This is what I'm getting on 10.10.3 with FV2 enabled:

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ok, I will definitely reformat when I get home.

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I turned off file vault and that seems to have helped. I let the app run for about 30 seconds and they hit those normal speed 400/800
 
Beach balled me too. I had to do a shut down and start over. Had created my home folder so I had to use a different name, let it setup, then delete the original incomplete folder and rename the new one with the wrong name. Not a big deal, but frustrating.

After that, everything seemed to work ok.
 
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