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Dropbox Apple Silicon (M1) install
Hi,
I recently purchased a MacBook Pro 13" with the M1 processor and I cannot seem to get a native install of Dropbox for this chipset. From searching the community, it seems like M1 support sh...
Hi all,
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Mark
Super User II
Super User IINo, I dont think it has any native apps as yet - the web pages certainly do not list native ones.
My entry-level M1 MacBook Air was delivered today.
One of the first things I do on a new machine is to install dropbox. I was crestfallen to learn that there is no native M1 port yet.
On this 8GB machine, Dropbox v117.4.378 is by far the heaviest RAM user: According to Activity Monitor, it's currently using just over 2GB !
I can understand that such a port is not a straight-forward undertaking, but could someone from Dropbox perhaps supply information on when such a thing might become available for testing?
- Daphne
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey Charl B.!
At the moment, we don't have any info on this to share, but thank you for sharing your interest in this.
If there are any updates, we'll make sure to keep you posted - thanks!Honestly, the lack of an update for native M1 support has lead to me finally cancelling my Dropbox Plus subscription after 7 years. The desktop app has gotten incredibly intrusive and slow, and at this point doesn't really do anything I need that iCloud doesn't. End of an era!
I have a MacBook Air with 8GB ram and concur that Dropbox is a hog. Would a native M1 version help reduce memory usage? If so I really hope Dropbox is going to release one. As others have stated if Dropbox gets to be too hungry with memory I'll need to consider alternatives. Perhaps there are tips to cut back on memory? Maybe selective syncing out stuff would help?
Estou esperando essa atualização pois gostaria de utilizar o Dropbox no Windows no Parallels M1
Drop box is a memory hog on my brand new Apple Macbook Pro M1. It's the only important app I'm using that still runs under emulation and is not native. After many years of being a fan, I started looking around for alternatives as there is no roadmap of getting an ARM native solution that is more efficient.
The main Dropbox process is taking up 1,2GB of RAM when it is doing nothing, and look at how many other subprocesses!
Please let customers know what Dropbox's plans are for native support for M1 macs.
