High Sierra Unbearably Slow

I have an Early-2011 MBP and High Sierra runs horrendously bad on it. It takes forever to load anything and the memory usage is off the scale. I don't have an SSD and still have 4GB RAM (I don't do anything taxing on it). Sierra runs perfectly fine.

My 2012 MBP retina (10,1), 16GB RAM, 250GB Apple SSD, fresh install, APFS running - was very, very slow. I disconnected my 4k monitor and it sped right back up. It's usable now. The monitor was connected on the HDMI port if that helps. CPU is not running all the time. I use iStat Menus for additional information and it was reading very high temps everywhere but the fans weren't on. Then it dawned on me that it was reporting in °F not °C. Now it's running cool. Doh!

Time Machine isn't working so well though, the boot drive is listed in the exclusion list, is greyed out and I can't remove it from the list. Already tried removing the appropriate file, no dice. Is this because it's APFS and the backup drive is on a network server (Mac Pro) running Sierra and HFS? I wouldn't think it would matter...

If you'd read the release notes for beta 2 update 1, you'd have noticed that they disabled Time Machine for beta 2 update 1 root volumes, due to an issue with APFS volume snapshots not freeing up used space.

MacBookPro8,2 here.

> early 2011 macbook pro

Hard disk drive, solid state or hybrid?

APFS?

> … “You have restarted your computer because of a problem.” …

Kernel panic. If you set this boot argument in NVRAM:

keepsyms=y

– then restart the Mac, then the next .panic file will be more informative.

The best OSX is 10.9.5, fast, stable, ...

APFS don't have support for NTFS native Write, Why Apple?

Your Mac open more 100 connections with website only you log on High Siera Beta 2, it's very bad.

I have the NEW Macbook Pro (almost switched back to my 2013 MBP) and the new beta drains the battery of course but my main concern is the lagging and spinning.. Is Apple turning into Windows? That was the sole reason I switched.....it just worked ....great.. dont ***** it up Apple!

Just updated today and it is super slow

OS macOS High sierra version 10.13

macBook Pro

processor 2.7 GHZ core i7

memory 8GB 1333MHZ DDR3

Graphics intel HD graphics 3000 512MB

10.13.1 beta (by accident) Mid 2012 MacBook Pro 16g ram SSD Unbelievably slow. :(

Hey, I don't know if you have solved the issue yet since it has been a while from your latest post but I have just stumbled on it. I have a Mid 2012 MBPr 15" with NVIDIA graphics and after reading your post I discovered that something was keeping the NVIDIA graphics card to not fall back to Intel graphics. A quick look around the activity monitor showed me that under Finder process there is quicklookuiservice that uses the discrete graphics. After killing it things went back to normal. Although it doesn't always switch to that sate and activity monitor reports that it doesn't even requires high perf gpu. Before your post I didn't even realize that the discrete graphics are on. So I must thank you. Something that I've also noticed is that avconferenced process after a facetime call doesn't get killed and hogs the cpu. I'm on 10.13 BTW. I hope these will be resolved with 10.13.1.

Same annoying issue here.

MacOS 10.13.1

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15", late 2013)

2,3 GHz Intel Core i7

16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2 GB

Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB

The update to 10.13.1 hasn’t resolved the issue, yet.

I have exactly same mbpr. I was working on fcpx on external monitor in clamshell mode and it was accumulating slowness. It went to the point of totally frozen. I restarted and same thing. I opened up the clamshell mode and the slowness went away instantly. I know high sierra has some problem in clamshell mode. I really don't think it is due to heat accumulation. My iMovie crashes and cannot even open in clamshell mode.

I have the same problem, the only way how to work with High Sierra on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013, nvidia) is not to use external monitor:-(

I was experiencing issues with unexpected reboots and extremely high usage of CPU and memory by mdworker on my late 2011 MBP, but I think I may have found the problem!! I went to Privacy in System Preferences and into the Privacy Tab. In Location Services, go to System Services at the bottom of the list and hit Details and turn off Frequent Locations.

Same issue with MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013).

Computer became unusable. Issue eleviated by unplugging from monitors. Computer still almost unusable for work because I'm a web dev that relies on screen space.

How does this sort of QA failure get through a company rich enough to hire a small country to QA stuff. Steve Jobs would be rolling in his grave.

After upgrading to High Sierra from Sierra, everything is slow, and I do not know what to do. My wonderful Mac mini became annoying mini. Any idea to fix this, wish I can turn back time.