Is my M1 MacBook Pro 16 GB RAM a lemon?

[jtsang777]

I’ve encountered system crashes attempting to install Adobe Creative Cloud and running Microsoft office. The screen would freeze, turn black, and restart. Running a universal app like Mindnode seems to run fine. It is concerning that an app from Microsoft office would completely crash my computer. After the restart, I get the same error message “s0cd report detected: Ap watchdog detected”. I already did a clean install of Big Sur 11.0.1 and same thing happens.

 

[Kung gu]

its a lemon

 

[Graham King]

Yep lemon. Send it back. Sorry

 

[macintoshmac]

I’ve encountered system crashes attempting to install Adobe Creative Cloud and running Microsoft office. The screen would freeze, turn black, and restart. Running a universal app like Mindnode seems to run fine. It is concerning that an app from Microsoft office would completely crash my computer. After the restart, I get the same error message “s0cd report detected: Ap watchdog detected”. I already did a clean install of Big Sur 11.0.1 and same thing happens.

It is a lemon and it is the fastest lemon Apple ever made. But since third-party apps are not running fine on a just-released machine, return it and wait for M2. Or maybe M3. Or the Pro and Pro Max variants of these chips.

Your answer is hidden inside your own words, and you probably know it. Why waste your own time and that of others for validation you do not need? It is going to take time for the oceans to churn their water and dish out compatible apps. Smaller streaks refresh faster. Just relax and enjoy your computer and if you cannot enjoy this computer, I have no clue what you might enjoy today. You do not even mention which version of Office. Is it the latest they say is compatible with Big Sur? Is it the beta channel that should be working nicely with M1 chips? Or are you running 2011 or 2019?

We are far from the days when AMD processors had a hardware defect with their instruction sets that under some cases would cause issues to people, and needed a replacement. This one is not it. This is software, you know it, so why waste precious time, yours and other people's?

 

[jtsang777]

It is a lemon and it is the fastest lemon Apple ever made. But since third-party apps are not running fine on a just-released machine, return it and wait for M2. Or maybe M3. Or the Pro and Pro Max variants of these chips.

Your answer is hidden inside your own words, and you probably know it. Why waste your own time and that of others for validation you do not need? It is going to take time for the oceans to churn their water and dish out compatible apps. Smaller streaks refresh faster. Just relax and enjoy your computer and if you cannot enjoy this computer, I have no clue what you might enjoy today. You do not even mention which version of Office. Is it the latest they say is compatible with Big Sur? Is it the beta channel that should be working nicely with M1 chips? Or are you running 2011 or 2019?

We are far from the days when AMD processors had a hardware defect with their instruction sets that under some cases would cause issues to people, and needed a replacement. This one is not it. This is software, you know it, so why waste precious time, yours and other people's?

Yes, im using the beta channel for office 365. I looked into the application kind and clearly states that it’s Universal.

 

[acidfast7_redux]

MS Office works fine for me!

 

[macintoshmac]

Yes, im using the beta channel for office 365. I looked into the application kind and clearly states that it’s Universal.

Please understand your Mac is not at fault here. This is all software and Microsoft and Adobe that need to fix their software. Once they release a fully compatible installation for Big Sur and M1 chips, you will not face any more issues. Your Mac is not the lemon here.

 

[circatee]

Are you still experiencing this issue? There is a thread here, too: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252437781
To me, based on the data, the issue seems to be related to external drives.

I have had the issue, too. And while running Big Sur 11.2.2...