New 16" MacBook Pro - Running Slow

the Report is already attached in my previous post.

You're right. Trying to answer too many posts at the same time. Don't know where to go from here.

Hey there, do you think you can help me with this? My Macbook is running veeeeery slow :(.

I have attached the report.

I bought a new MacBook Pro 16inch /23.GHZ/8c/16Gb/5500M/1TB on 4th July. I see the same slowness. Please help!

Catalina feels like a Forest Gump metaphor to me. It seems sluggish at simpler things (I shouldn't see beachballs in the finder), but can run when it needs to (converting movies, etc).

Bitdefender is for Work. Firefox debugger/inspector kinda sucks, so I will stick with Chrome. Catalina is the problem here, I hope.

Yeah, I kinda agree with you. I am using this os for about 8 years and Catalina is disaster.

Report was clean. Glad to hear that you found the cause of the problem.

Hi Old Toad. That other comment was from someone else. My report turned out clean but my computer is still slower than my old 2013 MBP. :(

Oh wow really!?! I’m checking now!

Did it work? Is it any better for you?

I bought in January a brand new 2019 Mac book Pro 16", 2.3GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9, 16GB RAM AMD Radeon 5500 4GB 1TB SSD.

It is sad to admit that this computer does not perform any better than my 2013 Macbook Air 11" with an old i5 4GB RAM and a 128GB SSD or my 4-year old Lenovo X1 Yoga Intel Core i7 with 16GB, which does not even have a proper graphics card. It is just a fact, not my opinion. Nonetheless the mac book pro here heats up so much that I could even sue Apple for burn injuries! For now I can fry eggs and boil water by running Apple's screensaver.

Still now I am very disappointed with the purchase, regret every single cent spent on it. Sorry to **** you off Apple fanatics and fans, but I cannot lie to myself thinking this computer is superior in any aspect to all the other Windows PCs of the same specs. And yes, the applications FREEZE and CRASH!

As my contribution: Please do not bother wasting time trying to solve the sluggishness with any of the good-intention-suggestions below about outdated the macOS (I have Catalina 10.15.4 installed on mine) or blame it on any third-party programs such as anti-virus, anti-malware, etc. (mine is clean as it came from Apple), but even YouTube, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Fusion 360 to name a few bring up the beach ball a lot! These above have absolutely no negative impact whatsoever on the performance of this computer. If my mac book pro is not defective, components malfunctioning causing it to heat so much and consequently performing so, so bad, I can only say it is a design flaw. I am hopeless and will have to swallow this computer as it is.

I fell for all that marketing nonsense from Apple commercials and YouTube useless "independent" reviews about power and speed.

I follow the advice and contacted Apple Support. They are very nice and professional. Due to the deadlock no Apple Store (they are very good too) open, so Apple directed me to an authorized service center operating. That is where things get a bit inefficient and ineffective. Travelled 31 miles to leave the PC for them to assess... 3 days later they ask me to collect the "the PC is ready". They reset my PC to factory, what I've done 1 month ago-told them earlier--and said no issues. I asked why I can fry eggs on the PC and why does it runs like a snail, and they told me the OS gets "entangled" causung this behavior. Fair enough, after my 36 years of IT, I learned a new cause of problem. After another 31 miles trip arrived home, turn on my Mac Pro and the PC still runs like my mac book air 2013, in 15 minutes of screen saver fries eggs, the fan screams loud, applications crash, and the beach ball spins faster...

Called Apple yesterday support again: very nice guys, promised will contact the service center, and will fix the PC to what it's supposed to perform.

Bottom line: Core i9, 16GB RAM, GPU w/ 4GB memory does not mean nothing if you cannot use it. I bought this to use Autocad on a project las January, not simply because I had $4K to spend on a 16" paper weight. I simply had to go back to my 4-year old Lenovo Core i7 to conclude the job, and leave the mac book in its box.