Brand new MacBook Pro frozen on spinning wheel

When you turned on FileVault, you instructed the Mac to encrypt all the data on the entire disk drive. Of course that is going to take time. What did you expect that it would be able to do all of that processing in no time?

Yes. If you are that unhappy with it take it back to Apple.

All I can say is that my brand new 15" Retina MacBook Pro is nearly as fast as my 2010 Mac Pro.

The even more messed up thing is I told it no, and it still took 40 minutes to move past that screen......

Just started my set up and was happy to find this post. I wasn't expecting the spinning wheel to take so long on a brand new MacBook Pro. I will patiently/impatiently wait.😐

Your comment makes no sense at all

Breaking it down super slow.

I got to the screen in the initial setup were it asks if i want to setup FileVault. I tell it no, and it still takes 40 minutes to get past that screen.

I said its messed up because I still had to deal with the crazy wait even though nothing was being encrypted.

If further breakdown is required, please let me know.

Its not the spinning wheel of death - its the beach ball of cool your jets - this is going to take some time to finish up.

Apple probably took out all of the warnings etc - because they felt it was too much a bother and they knew what was going - big mistake.

Send feedback http://www.apple.com/feedback/

The one time that I know of that Apple reversed what they did - was on hearing a modem dial out. They took it out at one of the early OS 10 releases then put it back later - after complaints including mine - that not having the option to hear what was going on caused problems. -- Not just internet access but also paperless fax going to a physical fax machine.

I experienced a 40 minute wait watching the spinning color wheel while setting up my brand new Macbook Pro 15" w/Retina. It happened on the setup screen which asks whether I want FileVault enabled. The default was checked and I (not wanting it because of Virtual Machines I need to run) UNchecked it. It was a little unnerving since there was no indication that UNchecking the option would give the appearance of a frozen machine. After 40 minutes, the desktop appeared and all is well. Just be forewarned that some patience may be required if you de-select this option (other posts I've seen indicate this happens when choosing 'yes' to this option as well). Happy Computing!

Reassuring to have read these posts. I too have just experienced a +/-40 min spinning wheel whilst setting up my brand new MacBook Pro 15" w/Retina mid-2014 (Yosemite 2.5Ghz/Intel Core i7). For me the wheel happened on the screen "Create a Computer Account", after clicking the CONTINUE button. For info, in the screen "Transfer Information to this Mac" I had ticked the box NOT NOW and the word "Filevault" did not appear on that screen. Also, if it's of any help to other worried folk, I had skipped the screen asking for an Apple ID, preferring to do that later.

Thanks for posting this. Exactly the same thing happening to me right now, so I was glad of the reassurance.

Same here. So disappointed to take brand new out of box and this! My spinning wheel started after I chose not to "upgrade to iCloud drive." Now on minute 20. It is very irritating. Someone please tell me something positive about why I stick with Mac. I constantly think about ditching Mac for PC. This may be my reason....

Similar situation, just purchased Macbook Pro this evening..currently watching the spinning wheel on the iCloud drive of which I selected "Not now." I really hope this clears up soon..,definitely not a good way to start with new device. 😟 Calling support line now as well just to be sure there's nothing else going on.

Skipped the vault and the cloud. Ball's a spinnin'. If not for this thread, I would be too. 15 min. and counting. Boy, I hope the 40 min. range cited here is accurate. The suspense is wearing thin.

I think this is ridiculous for a brand new macbook. I am currently waiting on the same issue. I only have a short amount of time to play with my new laptop and get it all set up before I have to go to work for the day. There goes that. :/