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How can I improve my MacBook Pro M4 Max video playback experience in Final Cut Pro?
I am migrating from a 16" MacBook Pro (last Intel version) to the new M4 Max MacBook Pro with the upgraded (non-binned) M4 chip. It was custom ordered with 64GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD.
I have a ...
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Does the new M4 Pro chip support USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 standard?
Do the new M4 Pro Mac Mini and M4 Pro Macbook Pro, which now have Thunderbolt 5 ports, support the USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 standard?
USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 supports transfer speeds up to ~2,000 MB/s for SSDs, but ...
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Sticky mouse pointer when using VMware Horizon Client
I'm using VMware Horizon Client Version 2406.1, Build 8.13.1 (11490701655) on a M2 Mac Studio connecting to a Windows 10 workstation. In single monitor mode it works fine, but when using two or all ...
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How to throttle MacBook M3 so a browser-based game runs at normal speed?
Now and then I love to play a game on the internet archive, specially for the Mac. It's a 1986 game (Dark Castle) and runs beautiful in my browser. With my previous 2014 Intel MacBook it ran on a ...
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New M4 Max - watching videos on an external disk has occasional video and sound freezes (old Intel i9 didn't have the same issue with the same setup)
I am surprised this is happening on my new M4 Max, especially when it didn't happen on my old 2019 Intel i9! I literally switched the old out for the new, so it's the exact same disk and setup (aside ...
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Disable memory swap / compression on a single process
When swiping to change spaces (after a few minutes of idle), there is 1-2 second of delay before the animation starts to play (and plays with a lot of stutter). It seems like this is related to swap ...
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Getting number of performance cores and efficiency cores of MacBook Pro in Terminal
The number of performance and efficiency cores differs wildly between all the variants of the Apple silicon M cpus and Apple usually does not list these even in the technical specs.
Is there a way to ...
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Safari causes high CPU load for no reason, launchservicesd active
After a couple of days, when I have Safari open, I have an unexplainable high CPU load, apparently system time. launchservicesd is active with 50%-110% CPU load.
The load disappears immediately when I ...
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How to monitor the process of exporting a mailbox from Apple Mail?
To free some space from iCloud Drive, I yearly move my Sent mail from the previous year to a dedicated mailbox, export it to a non-cloud location, and then delete it from Mail.
Since this is the first ...
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Why is the "Move left/right a space" shortcut slow, when "Switch to Desktop X" is fast?
This drives me crazy.
I am using MacOS Sonoma 14.4 on M1 Max macbook.
When using shortcuts to move left/right a space, not only the animation is slow, but then the time to interactivity is also slow. ...
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Connecting iPhone to both WiFi network and 4G/5G simultaneously?
Someone asked some time ago and I cannot believe it is not sorted: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254808545?sortBy=best
My use case:
WiFi at home
5G in the garden
But as I walk around the ...
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iMac 21" i3 very slow even on clean install of OS
A friend has a 21" i3 iMac 2019 with 8Gb RAM and it's horrendously slow. He's had Apple Support and Geniuses look at it and they cannot find a problem. The only extra software he has is Photoshop ...
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XProtect Consistently Eating Tons Of RAM?
I recently updated my 2017 MBP to Ventura. Ever since, my system has been running very poorly
I've noted that 90% of the time, when it is acting up, there is an XProtectRemediatorSnowBeagle process ...
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After updating to Ventura 13.6.5, the login items are missing and the computer is extremely slow
I use MacBook Air (M1, 16GB, 2020). Today I updated the macbook to macOS Ventura 13.6.5.
After the update,
The computer boots up and I can login to it.
The CPU usage is 1% (i.e. 99% idle) and the ...
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Kernel Task + VTDecoderXPCservice consuming inordinate memory when watching a Discord stream
I like to use Discord as a screen-sharing app with my friends, but when I'm watching a
Discord stream it brings my Mac to its knees, causing other applications to become very unresponsive. This came ...
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Is it faster to transfer data if I connect an external SSD to mac thunderbolt USB-C rather than to mac USB-A (if my mac only has 1 USB-A port)?
I have a mac mini, and an external SSD that only has a USB-A port.
So, currently, I use a USB-A to USB-A cable to connect the SSD to the mac to transfer data.
Now, if I use a USB-A to USB-C cable to ...
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APFS filesystem performance is very poor
I am curious why the performance of my logging routines (using O_APPEND) are so poor on MacOS, and did some testing. The performance is quite bad. Is this a known problem with APFS?
These tests are ...
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Can I list/edit/remove the "remembered" display settings for different multi-monitor setups?
I've had various single-external-monitor setups previously, and now I have two external monitors. MacOS seems to remember some previous ones and since one monitor takes slightly longer to wake up, it ...
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Screen sharing high CPU usage when using mouse / keyboard
I'm connecting into an M1 macbook (Sonoma) from a 2019 iMac (Sonoma, 64GB, i9, Radeon 570x 4GB) using Apple Screen Sharing.
Especially when viewing Chrome / Electron based applications, the iMac's ...
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WindowServer is eating lots of CPU, can't work out why
2019 16" MBP running 10.15.4. WindowServer is eating a lot of CPU, idling at 10-20%-ish even with nothing much running. Fans are constantly going because of it.
I've disabled transparency and stopped ...
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iTerm2 Cannot open more than 6 windows
It seems there is some sort of arbitrary limit in place for the number of iTerm2 windows I can have open on my Mac at one time. I can open up to 6 instances normally, but the 7th instance always ...
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Slow iMac OS version 13.0.1 - storage discrepency - need advice please
My Mac desktop is running incredibly slow and takes forever to open files and apps. My adult son is very tech savvy, but is not an Apple expert. Any advice based on his input here:
Verified total ...
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How do I solve the Magic Trackpad 2 lagging on macOS Monterey?
The past week I upgraded from macOS 11 Big Sur to macOS 12.3 Monterey. My Magic Trackpad 2, which connects via Bluetooth, lags. If I simply move my finger, it takes a short time before the mouse ...
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How do diagnose these periodic hangs (M1 2021 MBP)?
For the last several weeks, possibly since I updated to macOS 14 (but I think more recently than that), my MBP has been experiencing these periodic hangs in UI responsiveness. Every once in a while (...
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How can I speed up Time Machine backups that intermittently taking way too long?
I've long been amazed how fast time machine backups can be these days (well, years); even for really gigs of data. But recently sometimes my backups take forever. It seems to be independent of how ...
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Can I fix browser apps that deprioritize code running off screen on inactive space on macOS?
I left Chrome browser working on a task in one space and go to another. When I come back I see that Chrome task that were not visible made less progress than it would done if I stay in that space.
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My iMac takes more than 30 minutes to start after a restart
I have an iMac, 2019 with 14.3.1 MacOS. I use to keep it on Sleep, but from time to time, I need to either restart or shutdown. Whenever I do this, no matter if I chose to reopen the apps or not, it ...
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What hardware differences between a Mac Studio and a MacBook Pro might cause differences in performance?
I’m in the enviable position of having a nice wad of cash to spend on a new Mac setup. Since Tensorflow and PyTorch are now both supported by Metal, at least on my 16gb MacBook Air M1 I’m more than ...
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iPhone Podcasts app crashes when Low Power Mode deactivates
The Apple Podcasts app for iPhone is one of the buggiest pieces of software I've ever used. It crashes frequently, often failing to remember the last played content (instead it brings up something ...
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A tech from MacKeeper wishes access to my computer for licensing and activation. Is this a scam?
I paid for a version of MacKeeper which may be a mistake. Their tech wants me to allow them to access my computer as in have access to my desktop files, etc. They say it is to fully license and ...
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WindowServer high CPU on Yosemite
This is a follow up to So my Yosemite install is slow - what to do?
Since installing Yosemite a week or so ago my machine is very sluggish. I am a web developer so I change windows/apps a lot. ...
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What web site can I visit from Safari on my iPhone that will drain the battery the fastest?
Sometimes I need to drain the battery to zero. I can search for apps that are designed to do this, but I'd like to do it with a web site instead. What sites are designed to do this?
Barring that, what ...
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contactsd using over 50% CPU on my MacBook Air
I wanted to get some information with regards to the contactsd process on my MacBook Air. I often find it using over 50% of my CPU and I would like to know about it and how to disable its excessive ...
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Swap memory usage with 64GB RAM installed
Newbie to macOS and I was wondering if it's normal to have swap usage when the system has more than 6 times of available RAM than being used. I have 64GB of RAM installed and the most memory I've seen ...
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Finder suddenly very slow
Suddenly all the Finder actions become very slow, while using other apps like Chrome is very fast. When moving files to different folders, I always get a "preparing to move to" pop-up, ...
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What is "Open and Save Panel service"?
I put my computer to sleep and everything was normal, but when I woke it up again, the CPU and fans started to run at 100 %. This is what I saw in Activity Monitor:
What is this and why does it use ...
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Ridiculously poor performance of my M1Pro in Geekbench score and heavy tasks
I recently purchased a second-hand M1 Pro MBP 14", and when running heavy tasks its performance is ridiculously poor - several cpu-cores are not engaged, for example.
I then ran Geekbench 6, and ...
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Macbook air 2017 is responding very slowly
I have a Macbook Air 2017 and it became very slow after I installed Monterey in August 2022.
I reinstalled macOS twice and also formatted the disk completely. There is no overheating issue at all, but ...
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How to simulate slow internet connections on the mac
What's a good software solution to slow down internet connections on the mac for testing and simulations?
My primary need is when testing code in the iPhone / iOS simulator, so slowing down the ...
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Networked Activity Monitor for CPU monitoring?
I would like to track computer A's CPU (and maybe memory etc) usage on computer B in a GUI similar to that of Activity Monitor. Is that possible? Preferably a free solution. I have looked at SNMP but ...
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How to monitor and control thermal CPU throttling in OS X?
I recently came across the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility for Windows. I tried it under Bootcamp Windows and it was very interesting to learn in what situations my MacBook Pro's (mid2012) CPU is doing ...
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2019 Mac Pro 10GB Ethernet limited to 1.10GBytes Transfer, 944MBits/sec bandwidth
I have a 2019 Mac Pro (Sonoma 14.2.1) that is plugged into a 10GB ethernet switch. The other end is also plugged into a 10GB switch. No matter which direction, iPerf3 is reporting that I'm only ...
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Why every app that is using iCloud Drive is stuck on iPadOS 17.4.1?
I have been having this kind of issue since Friday evening (2024.04.05).
It all started with the Files app not responding (not showing deleted/updated/downloaded... files), then it propagated to other ...
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Cursor freezes for a split second around every 10 seconds
My cursor on my Mac (running the latest version of El Capitan) has been freezing for a split second around every 10 seconds – it then reappears in the place it should've been if it hadn't disappeared.
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Why isn't Mojave using swap despite high memory pressure?
I regularly receive the "your system has run out of application memory" alert, then the dialog box pops up to quickly kill any offending application before the OS crashes.
However, unlike ...
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fileproviderd and rtcreportingd spiking cpu
could use some advice from experts. For awhile now, the fileproviderd and rtcreportingd processes are both spiking on my 2017 macbook pro. I'm on Ventura 13.3.1 (a).
I've done some investigation, and ...
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Why is ZFS having such an impact on my iMac?
I installed the OpenZFS on Mac v2.2.2 package for Big Sur 11.7.9, gave it access through the Security Preferences, and rebooted.
I used diskutil to erase an external SSD drive I'm testing with. When I ...
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2020 M1 Macbook Air having random CPU spikes when using browser
I've noticed that every few minutes my CPU spikes to a 100% (sometimes even higher) whenever I'm using my browser. This happens randomly, but it usually happens when I'm trying to click on something ...
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how to prevent numerous background daemons from harming gaming FPS (or other intense foreground workload performance)?
One or another of the various macOS background daemons that comes with the operating system is always popping up and using a ton of CPU in the background. This is generally slightly bothersome, but ...
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Carbon Copy Cloner slow backups to Raspberry Pi NAS using SMB
I recently purchased Carbon Copy Cloner, and set it up to backup my Mac to an external SSD (Crucial X6, not especially high-performance). This works wonders, and I can finish an incremental backup in ~...
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