that&#x27;s the danger in posting this sort of ancedote.  there&#x27;s <i>always</i> someone who&#x27;s &quot;never seen a beachball&quot;.  It&#x27;s not that I truly don&#x27;t believe you, but I think you&#x27;re in the minority.  I see beach ball behaviour on pretty much every mac user in my coworking space daily.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m on my fourth mac over the last 8 years, various models, had both spinning disk and SSD, 4, 8 and 16gigs of ram.  Wife has had various macs going back to ... 2002?<p>I can&#x27;t recall a working day go by without pauses, hangs and beachballs.  And... I&#x27;ve had the equivalent behaviour on Windows models and Linux machines going back to at least the late 90s.  :(