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Teams is KILLING my Mac Every Day
Hi everyone, we're pleased to announce Microsoft Teams for Apple Silicon, which on the M1/M2 ARM builds, will have significantly faster performance than what's seen during the Rosetta emulation today! Here's our official roadmap ID for this release; Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365. More on this can be found here; Announcing Microsoft Teams optimized for Apple silicon - Microsoft Tech Community.
Users should see a significant performance boost with this release. And for the Intel Macs out there, we're still thinking about you! We have some large performance fixes coming that will help improve overall performance for the Intel version as well.
Thanks,
Sam Cosby, Teams Engineering PM
I need to agree with all that has been said in this thread. I'm on my second Mac and Teams (the desktop client) is just killing the whole Mac. When on the call (especially when screen sharing or having video turned on), the rest of the system is completely unusable. I usually spend 5-6hrs every day and calls and use other Teams features quite heavily (channels, files, polls) and I almost need to keep my computer physically restrained for it not to fly away ;). One solution that I've adopted is to move to web client of Teams. It works, not ideally but still much better than the desktop client.
Paszczi I can't believe that it is what two years and still Teams is an absolute nightmare. I work all day teaching coding, sdev and other related things remotely and is impossible to run VScode or any other IDE + Framework while running Teams.
It has become a running joke where we have to wait (Windows 95-style) for all to finally load and run
And this is not the worst. I have been reading that all Windows machines have the exact same problem. For MS to wish to have an "office-business default application that can compete with Zoom" and deliver this horrible UX is kind of like Windows 8 + IE in one package
- Using teams on my previous intel Macair (purchased new on March 2020) was dreadful and exactly as described by others in this thread. Using teams on a new macair with the M1 chip (purchased mid 2021 in a desperate attempt to solve the teams issue) is excellent… runs smoothly. I also have 16Gbytes ram in my M1 by the way. I have never heard the fan on the new machine, and it’s battery life is incredible (uses ~10% over first three hours of use). On the previous macair the fan would run continuously whilst running teams.
- Hi Keith,
Good to read that it does seems to work better on newer Macs. But not in the situation now to update macbook just for Teams. As for never hearing the fan on the new machine. I believe Apple removed the fan from the new Macbook Air with M1 chip. Not sure how they cool it though. Keith1140 great that you found a solution, but surely the answer to Microsoft building a product that doesn't work properly, and that makes all other tools not work properly, is not to buy thousands of dollars worth of hardware you wouldn't otherwise need!
I will be upgrading soon too, but Microsoft needs to fix this, not us 🙂 Having said that, Teams has been less problematic for me this week (still a hog, but not unusable) - so maybe they have pushed some updates or rolled some back..?
