<story><title>Teams is killing my Mac every day</title><url>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/teams-is-killing-my-mac-every-day/td-p/2790094</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamJacobMuller</author><text>This is great especially because there is still no M1 version of teams and running the Intel version of teams on M1 makes the whole computer slow to a crawl.&lt;p&gt;But, at this point, I have to wonder if teams is just abandonware. Stuff like this thread and the lack of M1 support 2.5 years after the M1 transition was announced and over a year after you could walk into an apple store and buy an M1 computer? I don&amp;#x27;t understand what could prevent them from releasing an M1 version besides a complete lack of will to do so.</text></item><item><author>jasoneckert</author><text>If you don&amp;#x27;t want to use the Microsoft Teams app (which uses a lot of resources), you can:&lt;p&gt;1. Install the Microsoft Edge Web browser on your Mac&lt;p&gt;2. Log into &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;teams.microsoft.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;teams.microsoft.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. Click ... &amp;gt; Apps &amp;gt; Install this site as an app&lt;p&gt;This will create an Edge app for Teams that uses almost no resources but has feature parity with the regular Microsoft Teams app.&lt;p&gt;We tell all of our students to do this, and it has solved all Microsoft Teams performance issues on student Macs (both Intel and Apple Silicon).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>solarkraft</author><text>Almost all Microsoft software feels like abandonware, which is wild when you consider how heavily they&amp;#x27;re promoting and profiting from it and how many and how heavily people use it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Teams is killing my Mac every day</title><url>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/teams-is-killing-my-mac-every-day/td-p/2790094</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdamJacobMuller</author><text>This is great especially because there is still no M1 version of teams and running the Intel version of teams on M1 makes the whole computer slow to a crawl.&lt;p&gt;But, at this point, I have to wonder if teams is just abandonware. Stuff like this thread and the lack of M1 support 2.5 years after the M1 transition was announced and over a year after you could walk into an apple store and buy an M1 computer? I don&amp;#x27;t understand what could prevent them from releasing an M1 version besides a complete lack of will to do so.</text></item><item><author>jasoneckert</author><text>If you don&amp;#x27;t want to use the Microsoft Teams app (which uses a lot of resources), you can:&lt;p&gt;1. Install the Microsoft Edge Web browser on your Mac&lt;p&gt;2. Log into &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;teams.microsoft.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;teams.microsoft.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. Click ... &amp;gt; Apps &amp;gt; Install this site as an app&lt;p&gt;This will create an Edge app for Teams that uses almost no resources but has feature parity with the regular Microsoft Teams app.&lt;p&gt;We tell all of our students to do this, and it has solved all Microsoft Teams performance issues on student Macs (both Intel and Apple Silicon).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>haxxorfreak</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;re running an Apple Silicon Mac you can get an early build of Teams osx-arm64 from the exploration build link listed here.[0]&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been running a daily build for a few weeks and it&amp;#x27;s noticeably better than the Intel build on an M1 Pro. It launches in half the time and feels far more responsive (probably due to not needing to use the Rosetta JIT for Electron). That said it&amp;#x27;s still a daily &amp;quot;exploration&amp;quot; build so YMMV.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;ItzLevvie&amp;#x2F;MicrosoftTeams-msinternal&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;defconfig&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&amp;#x2F;ItzLevvie&amp;#x2F;MicrosoftTeams-m...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>