What to do about spinning beach ball?

[JEBB]

Is it fault of Mojave macOS 10.14.3 or my 2012 13" MBP with 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD. It was even slower until I did a safe boot. What else might help? Thanks.

[Sarcany]

Retina? Wouldn't expect it to be all that much slower than HS.

Non-retina? With SSD, probably tolerable.

I wonder about 3rd party software. You'd be surprised what can slow down your Mac. I found that an old version of MenuMeters was beachballing a Mac this week.

[space-time]

Beach? Sunscreen!!!

[JEBB]

It was a bit slow with High Sierra but Mojave has really slowed it down. It is non-Retina.

[rich in distress]

If the update was recently done, I’d say leave it on for a day or two.
New systems have some analyzin’ to do, so it can update libraries, caches and whatnots.
If it’s supported, it should work good enough.
Good luck!

[Rolando]

rich in distress wrote:
If the update was recently done, I’d say leave it on for a day or two.
New systems have some analyzin’ to do, so it can update libraries, caches and whatnots.
If it’s supported, it should work good enough.
Good luck!

Agree. When I first upgraded to Mojave, it was dog slow and crashed a couple of times. I left it running overnight one night, and the next day it was fine! 2012 MBPro, 15", non retina

[testcase]

I've recently been getting SpinningBeachBalls on my 13" MBP (w/SuperDrive & 2 USB3 & FW800 ports). It is running Mac OS Mojave 10.14.3, with the 2.9GHz i7 processor, 8GB RAM and an OEM 750GB HD. WTF Apple?????

[hal]

do a safe boot

[NewtonMP2100]

.....balls.....to the wall......

[ka jowct]

I am not sure why you guys installed Mojave. If you cloned before installing it, it should be easy enough to revert to something that worked better.

Testcase, part of your problem is the OEM hard drive.