Computer slowing down after installing Wolfram for school on OS Big Sur.

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Computer slowing down after installing Wolfram for school on OS Big Sur.

I downloaded Wolfram on my 2020 macbook pro 13" for a class I am taking. I restarted my computer and it is running noticeably slower after the restart. When I look at the Activity monitor util there is a kernal_task taking up a lot of disk space. There is also a .dmg file that I don't remember downloading in my downloads (not where I downloaded Wolfram). Is anyone else having similar issues?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Jan 12, 2021 1:07 PM

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Tesserax

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Jan 12, 2021 1:32 PM in response to 13EFB13

Thanks for the updates. Yes, I'm familiar with that Wolfram app. However, I'm not sure at this point, if there is an update that will specifically support running it on a macOS Big Sur Mac. I just checked with the RoaringApps site and they haven't updated it for either macOS Big Sur or Windows 10 ... so there may be some compatibility issues.

I believe, at this point, you basically have three options:

Check to see if there is an update from the Wolfram support site ... or from your university. My guess for the latter is that they don't support Macs and expect you to use a Windows-based PC.
Run an earlier version of macOS inside of a VM that is compatible, with something like Parallels or VMware.
"Live with" the slow down.

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13EFB13 Author

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Jan 12, 2021 2:11 PM in response to Tesserax

There is a 4th option. I uninstalled it and problems went away. I think the incompatibility issue might have been trying to reconcile and that was causing the slow down. I'll do the crap shoot on whether or not it will affect my class or not.

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