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No sarcasm needed. My first Mac is an M1, and I've only seen the beachball when badly-behaved programs crash, never for waiting for something.

• wink 4y ago
  As a non-mac user I originally didn't even know the beachball was indicating "waiting" and not actually "it crashed". Just from my coworkers grumbling.
  • stuaxo 4y ago
    In the age of hard disks it could be hard to tell.
  • pram 4y ago
    It makes more sense that it's 'waiting for access' when you know it was historically supposed to represent a spinning CD.