I recently purchased a new 2023 M2 MacBook Pro. It's been fine for the past 2 months or so. About 2-3 weeks ago, I got a CalDigit TS4 thunderbolt dock. I am running macOS 13.3.1. Everything was great until about 4 days ago.
Now every time I woke my Mac up from sleep, it'd be extremely slow. I could still force quit all my applications, but that wouldn't help. Looking at Activity Monitor, which again is extremely slow to launch, I don't see any process that's taking all my system resources and causing this slowness.
I tried unplugging the TS4 dock and all external accessories. That didn't do anything.
I could still restart my Mac, but it takes a lot of patient (e.g. clicking on the upper left Apple logo takes about 1 min before the menu appears, then restart, etc)
How can I find out what's causing this? Is this a software or hardware issue?
Edit: added screenshot of activity monitor. It was too slow, couldn't get a screenshot of the CPU page. The most intense process there was sysmond, overall usage at around 8%
Now every time I woke my Mac up from sleep, it'd be extremely slow. I could still force quit all my applications, but that wouldn't help. Looking at Activity Monitor, which again is extremely slow to launch, I don't see any process that's taking all my system resources and causing this slowness.
I tried unplugging the TS4 dock and all external accessories. That didn't do anything.
I could still restart my Mac, but it takes a lot of patient (e.g. clicking on the upper left Apple logo takes about 1 min before the menu appears, then restart, etc)
How can I find out what's causing this? Is this a software or hardware issue?
Edit: added screenshot of activity monitor. It was too slow, couldn't get a screenshot of the CPU page. The most intense process there was sysmond, overall usage at around 8%
