[dylan604]

>Mac performs quite well.

This is not my experience at all. Early in the lockdown when Zoom became the darling, I was forced to install their app. Pre-pandemic, Zoom was already panned on this site for crap they were doing, so I pushed back hard against using Zoom before ultimately relenting. Running zoom with a simple 3 person call would bog down my 2017 MBP with fans running full tilt. I've since upgraded hardware and zoom is not allowed to be installed on this computer.

>I’m curious why companies like Facebook get more acceptance

Is there anyone on this site that agrees with that comment? I certainly don't. There are multiple billions of FB users, so I'm quite sure the readers of HN is just a mere rounding error level of numbers.

[kiwijamo]

I've been involved with zoom sessions of up to 50 connections and it has exceptionally flawless on my work macOS laptop from approx 2017. Compared to every other video conference software I've tried, zoom is unfortunately by far the best on macos, Windows and even Linux for video conferencing with large number of participants. I am baffled as to why it performs so poorly—this is not my observation on the machine I have and I also know it works well with on many of my colleagues Macs so it is not just the one Mac I use.

[agloeregrets]

Hard agree. Mac resource use of Zoom is insane. The only machine I've used that feels not bogged way down and blowing it's fans like crazy is my M1 mac and even then it's showing > 50% cpu use. When demoing our app in a screen share on my old iMac 4K the machine would be screaming it's fans and much much slower than normal. Meanwhile Messages screen sharing used less than 10% CPU. IDK what they are doing but it's not right at all.

[celdon25]

In my case, Zoom will cause my Mac to heat up quite a lot on each call, using the app.