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Probably, Big Sur was bad. So Monterey beta 1 should is been more optimised than Big Sur beta 1. Big Sur was a total redesign too that could have made Apple focus less on speed/snappiness, so Apple in Monterey should have made better performance improvements.
 
The GUI is faster for sure. But I’ve seen this before in 1st beta and anything could happen in later betas.

Geekbench scores are the same as Big Sur.

All apps I tried work the same as before.
 
For those of you saying it's faster, did you do an in-place upgrade, or a clean install?
 
For those of you saying it's faster, did you do an in-place upgrade, or a clean install?

made a new volume, installed to the new volume, but then used migration assistant to transfer over all of my settings and such.

so effectively more like an in place upgrade i suppose
 
same boat early 2015 13" MBP, new installed volume, migration assistant, feels quicker and snappier than Bigsur, not recommended for daily driver yet, but I'm using it now daily due all my apps that i used are working well.
 
same boat early 2015 13" MBP, new installed volume, migration assistant, feels quicker and snappier than Bigsur, not recommended for daily driver yet, but I'm using it now daily due all my apps that i used are working well.

yeah, i’m using it a lot. the only issue i’ve found is that the system preferences window gets scrambled sometimes

of course when i’m doing work i boot back in to big sur to be safe
 
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For those of you saying it's faster, did you do an in-place upgrade, or a clean install?
I just updated, everything feels smoother , and the appearance is different, more sharp looking. Safari tabs are really annoying, and that is my only regret so far.
 
I just updated, everything feels smoother , and the appearance is different, more sharp looking. Safari tabs are really annoying, and that is my only regret so far.
You gonna get used to it after two days. The tabs are cool but I might turn off the color background transparency thing.
 
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same boat early 2015 13" MBP, new installed volume, migration assistant, feels quicker and snappier than Bigsur, not recommended for daily driver yet, but I'm using it now daily due all my apps that i used are working well.
Also on early 2015 13" MBP - easy installation and no noticeable performance loss...everything working as it should. Best beta1 I can remember.
 
Just installed Monterey on my M1 MacBook Air and overall, it feels a lot faster than Big Sur. Apps load quicker, moving the windows around feels like Windows 10. Or is it all my imagination?
On a 2015 15" MBP, I can tell a difference between 11.4 and 12 DP1 easily aswell. Booting is so much faster than Big Sur. Logic feels slower but that is probably because it's on a DP.
 
You gonna get used to it after two days. The tabs are cool but I might turn off the color background transparency thing.
I dont see any color background transparent, but it turns black sometimes, i think when it is in low power mode?

I am not used to those tabs yet, they are still really annoying and move back and forth, and the tab groups come and go on the left side as they please.. I am really hoping that in an update, it changes behavior significantly.
 
Currently on the public beta. It runs faster than the stable release of Big Sur for me, in responsiveness. (Mac book pro 16inch BASE) Also, I noticed that the low power mode is essentially like turbo boost disabler : )
 
it's just you.. I have reinstalled High Sierra after using Monterey for 2 weeks and my Mac is now unbelievably fast
 
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