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Hello! This might be a rather specific question, but I’ve been wondering if a Macbook Air M3 (2024) is fine when you work on Miro with Zoom on (I conduct one-on-one classes without sharing my screen). The thing is, I’m a tutor and each board is full of different elements (that makes over 10.000 elements on one board per 1 student)

 

I’ve been thinking about buying a new laptop, and Apple sounds very appealing to me, but I’m not sure if it will be okay with working without overheating or lagging. Is there a way I can figure this out before buying an Apple Macbook M3 2024?

Hi ​@arieffy_ 

Thanks for your question — happy to clarify.

Yes, the MacBook Air M3 (2024) should be able to run Miro and Zoom at the same time without major issues, especially since you're not screen sharing. However, with boards containing 10,000+ elements, you may run into some lag or slower performance during heavy interaction like panning, zooming, or editing multiple objects. This won’t break your workflow, but it might slow things down on large, complex boards — especially over long sessions.

 

Please note that the maximum number of objects that you can add to a board is 100,000. However performance can be impacted starting from 1,000 objects. For a better experience, we recommend keeping the number of objects on the board below 5,000. Here are ways to speed things up:

  1. Delete unnecessary content, especially heavy uploaded files (e.g. detailed PDFs, high-res images, unused elements).

  2. Convert large PDFs and high-resolution images to PNG/JPG before uploading — these load faster and use less memory.

  3. Downscale board content if it appears oversized at 100% zoom (use Cmd/Ctrl + A to select all, then shrink).

  4. Split a large board into smaller boards — this reduces the load time and keeps things manageable per session.

  5. Resolve old or unused comments — too many unresolved comments can slow things down.

Learn more here: https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013588560-Board-performance-and-loading-issues#h_01JNDQT4ZZ1MK9F0FBNQ5XBEFD

 

Hope this helps!


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