Recently installed 2 Macbook pro 2019 x86 model with new MacOsx Sonoma for a week and time to time my macbook is really slow especially after waking from sleep. Sometime, I can ping to outside word or internet, but not able to browse on both Chrome and Safari. I had to reboot my Macbook every a few days when that happened.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.12
By far the easiest way to cause poor performance, instability, overheating and crashing is to install ANY third-party speeder-uppers, Cleaners, Optimizers, or Virus scanners. or a VPN that you installed yourself. The main reason is that they are relentless in scanning your files, non-stop, looking for things virus-like patterns in Everything. When completed, they do it all again.
The idea that a third party, with no special knowledge of the inner workings of MacOS, can somehow find a simple way to protect your computer — that is not already being done by MacOS itself — suggests that the MacOS developers are somehow "holding out on you". That is absurd.
You should remove any and all (other than Apple built-in) virus scanners, speeder uppers, optimizers, cleaners, App deleters or VPN packages you installed yourself, or anything of that ilk.
Third-party file Sync-ers such as DropBox, BackBlaze, OneDrive, or GoogleDrive can ruin performance, but are not inherently dangerous.
Effective defenses against malware and ot… - Apple Community
Ok, robertlee9, your MacBook Pro's just barely meet the requirements for Sonoma... have you tried running Activiity Monitor (in the Utilities folder), there you can force quit anything and everything on your Mac, Finder included.... Are there any Login items running in the background ?? Have you tried running in "Safe" mode....hold down "Shift" on keyboard as your MacBook Pro is starting up, if you see "Safe Mode" on your screen, it worked....be patient, hold down that key until you see "Safe Mode".... Try running EtreCheck and feel free to post the report it generates here.......how much RAM/memory might you have installed in your MacBook Pro ?
have you tried doing a reset SMC/PMU followed by 3-4 PRAM zaps on Startup and see if that changes anything ??
John B
Same issue with my Macbook Pro 2019. I had upgraded to Sonoma because the laptop was behaving sticky on Ventura. But it got worse on upgrading. My Adobe Lightroom would freeze without a warning, the fan would kick in at full speed, the OS would crash without a warning, started taking 50 hours to stitch and transcode each insta360 clip, etc. I formatted my machine and rolled back to Monterey and now the Macbook Pro is working fine again!
I feel the MBP 2019's hardware is at the fringes of Sonoma's minimum system requirement.
macosx Sonoma slow on my x86 2019 MacBook
