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On the other hand my wife has an M1 macbook air that I recommended she buys. And it's beachballing all the f*in time. I don't know if it's chrome or what, but i

On the other hand my wife has an M1 macbook air that I recommended she buys. And it's beachballing all the f*in time. I don't know if it's chrome or what, but it's odd to have both really fast build times in the CLI and the UI hanging constantly.

omnimus 5y ago
I just got cheapest M1 air and i was really surprised. It compiles faster than my semi recent Xeon desktop. Like i dont even know how it is so fast. Everything is so fast. The only bad thing is macos Monterey. It looks like some amateurs are in charge of design.
methyl 5y ago
Make sure you use native Chrome and not Rosetta emulated one, which can happen if you transfered data from another Mac.
- newaccount74 5y ago
  That might cause minor performance degradations, but really shouldn't cause hangs.
  - methyl 5y ago
    It really does, not sure what’s the reason but the performance is much worse than just 20% hit Rosetta claims.
  - thebean11 5y ago
    It made a massive difference for me on an M1 Pro machine
cassianoleal 5y ago
I have an M1 Air and it very rarely beachballs. Music did that yesterday but I can't remember the last time I had one. Incidentally, I don't use Chrome and don't even have it installed. My main browser is Firefox (at any given time I have 2-3 Firefox profiles open with tens of tabs) and secondary browser is Safari.
newaccount74 5y ago
Next time an app is beachballing, open Activity Monitor, select the app, click the little "i" icon, then click "Analyze process". You'll then get a bunch of stack traces that show you where the process is spending time. To diagnose beachballs, the only interesting thing is the main thread (the first one). Sometimes you can see from the method names where it's hanging.