New 16" MacBook Pro - Running Slow

My problem is fixed. Can’t tell you what we did. But my email was causing the problem. It was slow. Had to reboot all the time. Fan would come on. I thought it was computer. But I switched to outlook and kept apple mail closed. No issue. As soon as I opened apple mail the problem would start. Since I always keep all programs open I never isolated until I switched to outlook. I forgot what we did on phone with support but the problem is totally gone. Back to apple mail. No slowness. No fan on all the time. Computer fast as can be!!

Same problem as lyle. Brand new $2800 16" macbook pro and it feels like im running a 2003 macbook air. Tried a complete wipe and it didnt help.

Everything feels awful, for example if i have a fullscreen chrome window and drag the window to make it small/big very quickly it'll keep stuttering.

Seems like Apple messed up the hardware or OS. I dont know what else it could be. Very disappointed :(

Not going to bother running etrecheck as I did it once in the past and it came back fine. Theres nothing to check, especially if its happening with a fresh wipe.

I feel the same way. I am coming from a Nuc Canyon i7 with 32gb of ram and 2 970 EVO's in a raid 0. My nuc feels so much more responsive then this Macbook Pro. It's a beautiful machine but seems sluggish at times. At near 3200 with apple care I feel like it should be a lot more responsive. I thought possibly it was the disk encryption so I turned off but didn't really notice a change. My 2015 Macbook Pro which I handed down to an employee seems to run neck and neck with it. It's snappy but things like lightroom seem slow and uncompressing files wasn't very impressive.

Installed large update today and we did at the same time on the 2015 macbook pro and my new i9 took 45 minutes longer to install.

Within the return policy only had a couple days so hope to see some feedback here so I can make a good decision. Don't mind spending the money but want top performance.

I have the same issue!!! i just APPLE MAIL IS SOOOOOOOOO SLOOOOOOW !!!

#1 all the same emails are on my iphone and ipad pro 2 years old 9.7" work completly fine and fast with no issues.

#1 opening the apple mail app is sluggish

#2 once opened , typing this compaint form out has been the fastest typing that ive ever done this whole thing im typing here took me 2 minutes - equivalent email 5 minutues with dragging letters as you type.. they just stop so you dont know if your typing anything. ( annoying )

#3 - i purchased the 15" mac book pro two months ago, had 16 Ram and 500 gb spent 2899 on it..

returned it as i thought it waas the computer. called apple care about 20 gazillion times for 3 months

#4 they told me it was my RAM that i was running to many other porgrams on my computer.. i was like.. this is a 3000 dollar computer it should fly me to work and back for this MUCH MONEY !!

#5 i then based on the data that i gathered from the returned the 2 month old Macbook pro 15" 2899 computer and just purchased a

#6 fully custom built - fully loaded 64 g of ram, 1TB all the graphics crap cards you can get.. loaded this thing up with every fricking fast feature you can get for you money on the apple store.

3500.00 and extra 1500 more..

#7 guess what, here i am writing to confirm.. It has nothing to do with the computer..

64g ram memory

Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 mb

2.4 GHZ 8 core intel core I9

etc.

HELP !!!!!! ME PLEASE !!!

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I'm experiencing the same slowness. Even with no programs open, the transition between screens is not natural (not always). The scroll in a simple webpage is not natural, it is not continuous. Even the mouse getting moved on the screen, sometimes there is lag in the pointer. Checked always Activity Monitor and no issues neither with the RAM (even with everything I could open, I had 3GB free) nor with the CPU (far from 100%).

I'd to share the report generated using Etrecheck (all permissions granted) but I can't, I don't know hoy. Only images can be attached (and links, but I don't have a link to the report, it is on my Desktop iCloud and locally saved).

I restarted the compute in Safe Mode and it was awful. First of all, I checked if I did right and I did. Then, I tried to open Google Chrome but it took at least 20 seconds. After that, the computer fan started running a lot, like if the CPU computer was at 100% of the capacity (I couldn't check because Activity Monitor was disabled). Apart from that, I couldn't even write this post. I tried but I simply couldn't, not even with Safari. When I tried to login on the browser (both Chrome and Safari) it got blocked. It is not a password issue, I doubled checked the password because I copied and pasted (which was difficult as well because it took almost 30 seconds to open the text editor and no comments about copying and pasting ...). It got blocked because it got blocked, I could see the coloring circle which appears when an app doesn't work properly.

I don't like at all this behavior. What's happening??? Really bad experience with Safe Mode.

I'm thinking of returning the computer.

I have just bought the MBP 16" 32GB I9 8 core 2,3GHZ in order to upgrade from the 2,8GHZ MBP 2015 MID model.

I basically restored a backup from the MBP2015 to this computer and one of the things I find strange is that my Google Chrome browser seems sluggish... It is mostly pronounced when changing between tabs.... Sometimes it seems like forever changing tabs

The installation is a pretty fresh Catalina install with all upgrades.

And offcourse the sound popping is anoying...

Looking forward to a fix on the popping sound and hopefully the slugginesh...

BR Flemming Dahlhof

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I just love that I have a fresh computer (MBP16) with a fresh install of Catalina. I use and it's slow and painful compared to my last Mac (which was 7 years old). Call support and they want me to spend hours and hours trying to sort it out for them. WTF. Not my job. I spent $2800 on this machine. My work is my computer so this hurts.

Just want to say that same issue for me! Macbook Pro 16" noticeably worse than my 5 yr old Macbook Pro, despite using migration assistant so all the same settings/software/etc. Only difference then is my hardware (i.e. the new computer) and the new OS (was using High Sierra on my old MBP).

Sluggishness is most noticeable with Chrome (although it's variable) and loading the computer after restart.

Hoping someone else has figured out a solution! I don't use Apple Mail, so that's not the issue.

Glad you mail is working. I have about 12 email accounts and run a business. I don't have time for Dragging typing and seconds of delays.

Ive been using outlook so far and it has fixed my issue. Now I am wishing I got 2Tb instead of the 1 TB..

But still im not that impressed.. with this fully decked out 4k machine. seriously mail should not slow it down.

they need to do something about it for sure. I have not even attempted to open it again after 3-4 months of complete aggravation.

By the way tech support... was the one to convince me that I needed a bigger machine that would fix my issues... that i had to many applications open.. .. it was mail and they don't wanted to recognize the issues.

I got tired of the slower perfomance, and after spending hours and hours getting failed 10bit HEVC exports (excuse me MacOS, your telling me Compressor is using 135GB of RAM!), forcing me to have to use my 2015 MBP (uses only 4GB or RAM for Compressor), I gave up. I was working with Applecare, but they are not available due to the coronappocolypse, and I don't want to wait months just to have them make excuses as to why they can't resolve my issue. I bought a 16" i9 with 1TB storage for $2500 no tax from B&H to replace it...hopefully I can get close to what. paid for my 16" i7 since I paid $2100 out the door for it and the price has since gone up hundreds of dollars. If the i9 has issues, I will probably give up on life and walk within less than 6 feet of another human being...game over! :-P

I just bought 16'' MBP (i9 , 16GB, 1TB, 5500M) and having serious issues.

1. when i want to open an app(specially chrome) it just gets dying. it lasts seconds and i cant click on anything.
2. my battery is horrible. it just last for 2 hours without doing any heavy work. and i checked CPU usage and i didnt found any culprit.

i came from windows because of slow speed and now i just have 2x .

i spent this much money and having this issues, i just want kill myself.

Hey, I used Etrecheck and here is the result. My laptop battery is kind of draining fast compared to my old MacBook Pro 15" (2015, I think) and one obvious difference is that the old laptop was running smooth compared to the new one (MacBook Pro 16")!

Hey, thank you so much for the help. I have done what you instructed. I am surprised about CleanMyMac and Gemini, thought they are useful. Especially to optimize the ram since I noticed it kept increasing and I have to perform the task to make...the system running smooth. I attached the report and if you kindly check to see if everything is better now?