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Teams is KILLING my Mac Every Day
I have a hard time believing I'm the first person to post this after not finding anything in the forum. I wouldn't doubt if Microsoft is deleting them because they can't figure out how to fix this i...
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 have just started an online remote cyber security course and just faced this issue myself on the first day of live training with 70 people. Only 10 had video on, myself included. It was doing my head in as I couldn’t contribute to the chat. Teams desktop was completely unresponsive a lot of the time. It has all the markers of a very poorly designed piece of software and I compare it now to ransomware in that it is hogging all my systems’ resources so I can barely take live notes. As an MSP owner using Teams for Direct Routing just for calls I am disgusted with what Microsoft have engineered here. I have a MacBook Pro 13” i5 8GB 1TB SSD machine and find it runs great for most things expect intensive creative software where I need more RAM. I appreciate technology advances and resource demands increase, however this software audience requires that it works on a range of hardware. In the past I have used Zoom or Hangouts instead as Teams is soo unreliable. Coming from an Apple background with the best reliability it is disappointing Microsoft’s software products don’t meet the grade.
I will be trying the web app next and report back my experience. And maybe use my iPad Pro to mirror it across my monitors.
Has anyone got any other solutions?
I will be trying the web app next and report back my experience. And maybe use my iPad Pro to mirror it across my monitors.
Has anyone got any other solutions?
Hello there. I saw that the are mayor performance hits when the machine has a secondary display.
I have two alternatives, when having a call try to disconnect the secondary screen or the other one that i've just tested is to have the video call on a web browser and everything else on the app.
I know that this """""workarround"""" is sub optimal but at least my machine doesn’t hang anymore with two screens and a teams call.
I have two alternatives, when having a call try to disconnect the secondary screen or the other one that i've just tested is to have the video call on a web browser and everything else on the app.
I know that this """""workarround"""" is sub optimal but at least my machine doesn’t hang anymore with two screens and a teams call.
- I will be trying this tomorrow in my next meeting!