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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
shilocase I can confirm that the new Macbook Pro do not suffer from this issue.
Given I spend 95% of my day using Teams I just couldn't cope any longer on my Intel based Mac. I moved to a M1 Pro 14" MacBook Pro and there are no issues at all
Teams continues to hammer the CPU when in calls but the added power of this CPU just laps it up and there is no Fan noise.
I realise this is a sledge hammer to crack a nut approach but I just couldn't continue like this any longer!
I am yet to test on battery but hoping I can get longer than the 35mins I had before from 100%!
- Me too. I have an M1 MacBook Pro and I have been running Teams in Edge browser and in Shift app and its had no problem coping with that. Video is better whereas before I was having multiple issues and it kept shutting my iMac down. Having said that, while waiting for my shiny new MacBook Pro, i was using an old (8 years old) iMac running on Catalina and although video not so good (age of machine) it ran teams on Edge no problem and didn't shut down once. Haven't been game to try the Teams app yet but since I have it open twice and Mac hasn't a problem, maybe the app will be fine too.
+1 on this issue as well. Sad to hear that even M1-processors has a hard time coping with teams. I run a Macbook Pro 2017 with 16 GB Ram and Intel Dual Core i5 and when running teams everything else is slow and the fan is running loudly.
Working in the web-develolpment business it is embarrasing to make a demo of a new site for the customer and everything runs extremely slow while screen-sharing. It makes our product seem slow...
I'm having the same issue - as soon as there is a video conference going on Teams is getting so slow and unresponsive you barely can't make any actions. Video is flickering like nuts as well. Clicking on icons (e.g. mute/unmute) did take about 15 seconds to actually respond. It's just unusable. Also the fans are going crazy. After videocalls ended it's fine again after some time.
I have the feeling it's better without external monitors.
