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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
Finally gave up on Teams on my 2020 Macbook Air with the i5. Tired of the fans running full speed during calls. Tired of the poor responsiveness while on calls and my system coming to a crawl. Tired of 100% CPU usage during Teams while every other application uses just 10's% all combined.
Got the new Macbook Air with the M2 and everything works fine. Teams uses 20% of the CPU now and responsiveness is fine. The i5 didn't have enough horsepower for the inefficient application.
Shame on Microsoft for releasing sub-optimized code. I wonder just how much extra CO2 went into our atmosphere due to the extra power consumption globally? It would be fun to calculate how many car's emissions could have been offset by a better version of Teams 2 years ago just from lower computer power consumption. Certainly would have reduced my frustration index as well
- Yes the Scope 3 emissions must be huge for MS. I have one company using Google products so Google meet and another that tends to use Zoom even though an MS shop.
