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    New Macbook M1 Air m1 8 gb already has some performance issues, I need your advice

    Hi everyone! So I got a new MacBook Air M1 8 gb, macOS Big Sur, a week ago and I have already been experiencing some performance issues that I didn't expect to see at all. As soon as I turned it on, I immediately upgraded to Ventura. Issues: 1) Sometimes when launching applications, a beach...
    • sunnlight99
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    • 8gb ram freezings lagging macbook m1 air problem hardware spinning beach ball
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: MacBook
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    Fleeting Spinning Wheel on M1 64gb Ram Macbook

    Hi guys, Just some advice please. Brand new Macbook Pro, M1 Max, 64gb Ram, with a 4tb hard drive, and I'm running the latest OS Catalina 10 15. 7. I was using Final Cut Pro and Safari today and I noticed the spinning wheel when editing audio in FCP and when switching tabs in Safari. However...
  3. a84c72

    External Drive.... iMac crashed and Drive FREEZES.

    I have a 2019 Macbook Pro running Big Sur (up to date). I have an external drive that I use to store files and libraries as a backup to the Macbook (this is not my time machine backup). My son took a ton of pictures over the weekend and I wanted to go through his SD card and choose which...
    • a84c72
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    • big sur 11.6 external drive frozen spinning beach ball
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: macOS Big Sur (11)
  4. SolidCake

    MP 1,1-5,1 MP4,1 -> 5,1 has the spins. Need help!

    Hi All, Over the past year, my cMP4,1 -> 5,1 has been getting the spinning beachball more and more. The most notable example of this is when I'm saving files. Where saving (text!)files used to be instant, now it can take up to 5 minutes of beachball to indefinite beachball resulting in me...
    • SolidCake
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    • beach ball freezing mac 4.1 mac 5.1 mojave spinning beach ball
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  5. Steele45

    MacBook freezes a lot

    I know this is an old mac and is expected to have problems but I have a mid 2009 MacBook Pro and whenever I start it up it will most of the time go to login, I will put in my password, then it goes to my desktop. Now, there a variety of things that happen, it could not even load my desktop at...
    • Steele45
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    • help macbook pro problem spinning beach ball
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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    Beach Ball, Sluggish & Typing Lag

    I have a 15" MacBook Pro mid-2010, running Sierra 10.12.1. I use Safari and Mail. Processor: 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory: 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 288 MB Recently I've experienced more and more beach ball spinning, sluggish behavior (slow to open programs, windows...
  7. alexander8317

    What has happened to my Macbook Pro 13'' 2012?

    I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out what the problem is with my mac. So, a little while ago there were several cases of my macbook somehow waking itself from sleep mode (while the lid was CLOSED) and severely overheating, while the fans would be blasting. It would literally be hot...
    • alexander8317
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    • beach ball hardware macbook macbook pro 13" overheating slow performance spinning beach ball
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  8. olifrost

    Load Cursor Hypnosis

    Since updating to 10.12 I seem to spend most of my time staring into the Spinning Beach Ball of Death So I created a replacement that adds hypnotic messages to your Mac’s load cursor You can see and download them here Load Cursor Hypnosis: http://oliverfrost.co.uk/loadcursorhypnosis
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    Spinning beach ball, I've tried everything..

    Or have I ?! My 10.6.8 starts ok and once logged in I can open a few windows but then I get the spinning ball after a few minutes and/ or if I try to open an app. It is only half full and was running fine till this happened a few weeks ago. (Maybe the result of turning it off at power point a...
    • bebenut123
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    • spinning beach ball
    • Replies: 57
    • Forum: macOS
  10. travellingkiwi

    Late 2013 Mac Pro, 32GB Memory Spinning Beach Ball

    Sigh... 32GB of memory and still we get pauses... After a week or so of running, sleep at night, work all day, sleep at night... I get inundated with the spinning beach ball... Activity monitor swears that CPU is about 5-10% at the time... Memory is anywhere between 12-20GB used. So truckloads...
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