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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
Every other app works beautifully, but it’s been a disaster as during COVID almost exclusively work off teams and it clogs up resources across my entire laptop.
Nrhill I can confirm that the same issue occurs on M1-based Macs. I have a new MacBook Air and today I timed it. It took 40 seconds from clicking the "Join" button in the Outlook invitation to get to the "intro" screen in Teams where you choose whether to show your video, etc. From there it took another 30 seconds to place me in to the call. Even then I could hear the participants but not see them. It took another 20 seconds for the video feeds to appear. A total of a minute and a half to join a call. Now that's frustrating.
Fortunately, there was no sharing of screens going on this call but when the call was over it took at least 30 seconds to close the window down after clicking "Leave".
As well as the extremely painful experience using the application, it also slows down other applications like another poster said.
I have to say that I'm pleased to have found this thread. I was beginning to think that it was a general problem with my shiny new MacBook but am pleased to discover it's actually Teams specifically.