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FWIW haven't experienced this at all on an M4 Max (with Slack and VSCode open).
by OGEnthusiast 1y ago
FWIW haven't experienced this at all on an M4 Max (with Slack and VSCode open).
- Etheryte 1y agoTo be fair, the M4 Max is such a beefy machine that you could do a lot of things wrong and still not notice it.
- OGEnthusiast 1y agoTrue, but looking at Activity Monitor I don't see any CPU or GPU spike when having an Electron app open and scrolling in Chrome (vs scrolling without any Electron apps open)
- STRML 1y agoWatch your power usage. With large windowed VSCode or Cursor, you will see far higher CPU and GPU usage by WindowServer and more system power consumption. It’s easier if you track it with stats.app.
- masklinn 1y agoApparently the issue has to do with transparencies (shadows and straight up transparency), so could be a question of capabilities not capacity e.g. older gens have less range and some non-default require falling back to software whereas newer gens can keep to hardware.
- bdash 1y agoStrangely the WindowServer issue is a constant issue on my personal MacBook Pro, but I've never seen it on my identical work MacBook Pro. It seems like there's some other factor that is necessary to trigger the problem.