Ask HN: Degraded Mac performance on macOS 26 Tahoe?
1•psmyrdek•4mo ago
Has anyone noticed degraded perf of their machines after upgrading to macOS Tahoe w/ Liquid Glass? Scrolling and rendering of everything web is just mediocre. How about your vibes?
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Scotrix•4mo ago
The first few seconds/minutes I felt the same but it was fine quite fast. I think the typical spotlight reindexing was the culprit.
psmyrdek•4mo ago
In my case it's consistently poor web experience. Chrome scrolling and rendering is lagging so hard that it's hard to believe. The same page on Safari works flawlessly.
adnanshrr•4mo ago
found a solution yet?
psmyrdek•4mo ago
Turns out that Chrome was in this weird "pre-update" state - by moving to the most recent version everything went back to normal.
robthebrew•4mo ago
Mac version? SSD? Any large update requires a bit of housekeeping (eg Spotlight)
psmyrdek•4mo ago
M4 Max
boars_tiffs•4mo ago
there are some glitches here and there yes, visual and otherwise, across various parts of the system.
gaming is somewhat impacted too; i noticed strange glyphs playing disco elysium
some memory leaks too apparently but I didn't encounter this first hand.
battery life is impacted but idk by how much or if it's to any significance, time will tell.
omgsean•4mo ago
Yes it feels awful to me. Seems like every Chromium and Electron app is sluggish and choppy, and as someone who uses Brave, VSCode, and Slack all day I am straight up not having a good time. Hopefully it gets resolved soon. This is on an M1 MBP Pro with 32GB ram.
Scotrix•4mo ago
psmyrdek•4mo ago
adnanshrr•4mo ago
psmyrdek•4mo ago