Slow performance from new macbook pro m1 ?

I'm having the same issue even on the new 11.1 version. The UI just seems to be laggy and not smooth at all. I can't say I have performance issues but the graphic UI feeling is pretty off. Even more off when I'm using the Magic Mouse.

Same here with my MBP. Expectations were high. But the machine is lagging all the time.

It does not feel smooth. No big difference if Software runs via rosetta or not.

Main Job: Coding and Compiling.

I am highly disappointed.

Specs: 16GB/512GB

I have the 13 inch Macbook Pro M1. To be quite honest, I've been disappointed too. I realize it's a new OS, it's a new chip, but this is not the "lighting fast" performance I expected. I'm not sure if I should hold out for updates or just return it. Even doing simple things - web browsing, etc. - seems slow. When I plug into HDMI with 2 different adapters, I get beachball and laggy performance. Not what I was expecting.

I will stay with the machine. I found a good solution with a DisplayLink adapter for external displays.

It is not that fast as I expected but the battery is very good and most of my applications are working OK.

I think if more apps are available as universal binary - things will get better...

Hi, Its been 15 days since my M1 MacBook air with 16GB and 256 SSD. And I am also facing the same issues from this morning. I did update all the software update available.

Any actions to be done to solve this? Kindly help.

Hey Tom!

Thank you for sharing your experiences with the Macbook M1.

I have recently bought the MBA M1 base model, 8gb/256gb. Im currently on the latest macOS Big Sur 11.2.3. The machine itself is super snappy. Finder, apps, power it on/off and using programs works perfectly fine. My issue is the scrolling expierence in safari, especially with lots of animations. It feels laggy and choppy - like frame dropping. When i use Chrome or Edge (!!) the scrolling feels more smoother, not 100% perfect, probably 95%.

Ive tried all of the "regular" things to solve the safari performance issues. Ive also been in contact with Apple support several times, no solution yet.

So my question is, do you experience the same lag when scrolling safari? IE pinterest and facebook.

Thank you,

Jonas

Correct! Ive been a Apple user for years and the software is the main reason why I pay this huge amount of money. You Get a good specced Windows pc for the prize of a MBA. But again the MacOS experience have been worth it, until this day... still have a week to decide.....

Another question. Did you have troubles erasing the disk, and then re-install Big Sur? I had «No users available for authorization”. When trying to install after the format. I was able to fix it in a weird way using the Apple user «tgermaneri» soultion which is following: «I was able to fix it by allowing it to boot into normal mode where it asked me to use my apple account to activate the mac, before I "quit recovery assistant" button (IIRC that's what it said) I chose "Erase Mac" from the menu up top. That took a few seconds, rebooted and I was able to continue a fresh install, this time without the “No users available for authorization” message.»

keep me updated, Tom!

Best regards

Jonas

I´m not so satisfied with the OSX-experience but I´ll hope this will change in the future. The hardware is great, but from this point I can´t say that I would be willing to pay an extra amount of cash just for the software if hardware would be the same as in windows land.

When formatting the MBA the first time, everything went well. But the second time I deleted it from icloud and did everything I should do for selling it. Then I couldn´t create my user because of the weird message. So I deleted everything again and then it worked. I´m pretty good at building PC´s an working with hard drives, partitions an so on but I wasn´t sure what I was doing when setting the MBA new up. But maybe it was because I had some kind of rage-mode and just wanted to return it and forget about apple and their M1´s and my big expectations.

Since I´m all new to apple and OSX there are so many things I have to learn oder just change my way of thinking and working with this machine. Formatting the drive is very different since there are some instances left over the main partition. But I didn´t have much time messing around with that and sure won´t do in da near future while my MBA works as it should.

If I expect something new, I´ll post it here.

Cheers, Tom

The M1 is slow and hangs up on iPad Pro 2000 with M1 and my MacBook air also is slow and Hangs up and doesn't shut down properly. The audio jack is inconsistent.

reinstalling software doesn't help. It is just slow.

I hope there is a solution soon :)

got my mini and same lag issues. how can some reviewers say something good about m1 and we are experiencing the opposite of what they are saying???

i cant even use this for my other productivity tools. lags so much.

i hope i will not regret getting the m1.

i hope fix will come?

I have a 2020 Macbook Pro with the M1 and 8GB of memory. I've read this chat stream and some indicate that there's an issue with only 8GB but not with 16. Others say they are experiencing slow performance even with 16. This new machine is MUCH SLOWER than my 2016 Macbook Pro. I have the macOS Big Sur version 11.2.3. I don't use elaborate apps; just MS Office and Chrome for the most part. Even my Outlook is super slow. I get the spinning beach ball with nearly every app. Very frustrating! If anyone has a magic solution, please share!

Same. The youtube reviews and online articles sold me so much that I thought buying the M1 was a no brainer. I've only had my M1 Air base model and it's already lagged twice. Once when I first installed an app, Spotify, the dock lagged. Second, after I put it to sleep whilst Netflix was open, when I re-opened it, the device also lagged. I had to shut it down for the first time, and I waited a while for the second time because even command+Q didn't work. I hope this is just a new product thing.

i got the mini 1tb 16gb. going to be my daily. but sad thing my apps are not native and it is bad. even the resolve that they claim native is so laggy. or maybe i am missing a setting or something?

oh btw, do you have the get info rosetta thingy? it is not showing in mine.

if you have it, how did you set your mac? is it out of the box?

i also tried the ones they suggested using the terminal and i still cant see it.

feels like a bubble.

@Grant Bennet-Alder: Yeah, heard that many times. But what does this "first time" mean? Really only the first time after installing it? Because this wouldn´t even need to be mentioned, because that delay wouldn´t happen a second time with this program.

Or does it mean every time the program opens up after beeing closed (really closed - not only the red dot in the window)?

But since Microsoft Word and Excel running native on apple silicon and still have a big delay when opening (not every time, but nearly most times), it can´t be rosettas "fault".

Cheers,

Tom

The December 2020 release (build 16.44) of Microsoft Office provides native support for both Apple Silicon and Intel-based Macs. 

Is this the version you are running?

If yes, the issue is NOT with the Apple-silicon M1, it is with the Microsoft software.