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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
Microsoft Teams Version 1.4.00.34557
(It's always been slow on my Intel Macs)
Video calls in particular are laggy. Even the local image from my camera looks laggy.
I don't see any issues like this with any other video tools, such as Quicktime, FaceTime, Zoom, mmhmm, Google meetings, Amazon Chime etc...
According to "System information" MS Teams is still an Intel app, so any performance issues are likely to be present on both architectures. It's just that maybe the M1 machines are so much faster it wasn't noticeable until now. Something has definitely changed to make it more of an issue on the M1 Macs too though.
- Update on this. After the Monterey 12.1 update, things have sped up somewhat.
Now the only thing that is laggy is Teams video calls specifically.
All other video apps continue to work like a dream. A quick data point on my virtualization experiment.
Today I tried to start my first call off the morning, using teams on Windows inside a Parallels virtual machine on my mac, and teams told me it (approximate quotation) "couldn't start the camera, because my computer was too busy, close some applications and try again."
The mac mini is a 3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5, with 32 mb of RAM. The Virtual machine is given 4 processors and 16 mb of RAM.
So this is pretty pathetic, as I wasn't running an especially odd collection of apps in the VM -- teams, outlook, chrome, excel..., outside the VM on the mac I had some music composition stuff running, but that *shouldn't* affect what's dedicated to the VM I would think.Anyway, a data point.
