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New MacBook Air M2 slower than my old MacBook Air 2010, 2015 and my Dell XPS 17???

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Ben Men

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I bought new MacBook Air M2 from Apple Store. And I experiencing the slow and laggy issue on my new laptop.

I compared this new MacBook Air M2 to my old MacBook Air 2010 /w macOS High Sierra, MacBook Air 2015 /w macOS Monterey and Dell XPS 17 /w Windows 11 22H2 and they can be run FASTER than brand new MacBook Air M2.

It has slower boot time, slow copy/paste file, slow performance and laggy but it's an SSD!
 
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If you live somewhere near an Apple store, take it there and have them look at it. That model is not slow so it’s either something wrong with the operating system, something wrong with the hardware, or something you did.

If you don’t live near an Apple store, then back up your data then restore to factory settings.

I have the model and it’s not slow at all. The problem isn’t with the model, but with your particular laptop.
 
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Ben Men said:
Hi
I bought new MacBook Air M2 from Apple Store. And I experiencing the slow and laggy issue on my new laptop.

I compared this new MacBook Air M2 to my old MacBook Air 2010 /w macOS High Sierra, MacBook Air 2015 /w macOS Monterey and Dell XPS 17 /w Windows 11 22H2 and they can be run FASTER than brand new MacBook Air M2.

It has slower boot time, slow copy/paste file, slow performance and laggy but it's an SSD!
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Did you buy the base storage? That's a half speed drive.
 
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Again? M2 MacBook Air???
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Of course. It’s either a faulty unit or a spotlight indexing is using a mega ton of resources. But if you switch it for another, of course you’d switch for another M2 Air, because a faulty model is not representative of a computer that should be insanely faster than the 2010 Air. And getting the M1 makes no sense. Getting the end of a multi year design instead of the beginning of a new design.
 
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Did you buy the base storage? That's a half speed drive.
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That’s not the reason for all his woes besides maybe copy/paste. I think this guy is trolling, or foolish. Nothing about a faulty model will make it exceptionally slow. He provides extremely little information, zero evidence, just makes a claim and waits for MR to say “omg the storage!! Omg the thermal throttling!!”
 
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Tyler O'Bannon said:
Of course. It’s either a faulty unit or a spotlight indexing is using a mega ton of resources. But if you switch it for another, of course you’d switch for another M2 Air, because a faulty model is not representative of a computer that should be insanely faster than the 2010 Air. And getting the M1 makes no sense. Getting the end of a multi year design instead of the beginning of a new design.
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I consider buying the m2 mbp13 to replace my m1 mbp13 because the end of a multi year design is peak hardware refinement in that package. It’s familiar and reliable.
 
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I consider buying the m2 mbp13 to replace my m1 mbp13 because the end of a multi year design is peak hardware refinement in that package. It’s familiar and reliable.
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It’s also old and dated. You are starting with a 720p webcam. Old speakers. Old mics. Old screen. Old everything. And if you keep it for a few years, it’s double dated upon improvements on current Gen.

To each their own, but I would never start at the end.
 
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That’s not the reason for all his woes besides maybe copy/paste. I think this guy is trolling, or foolish. Nothing about a faulty model will make it exceptionally slow. He provides extremely little information, zero evidence, just makes a claim and waits for MR to say “omg the storage!! Omg the thermal throttling!!”
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He’s a newbie just trying to get attention and replies the wrong way. He probably does this with all his social media. Opens an account, makes a contentious statement, and watch all the replies come in. Once people figure his MO, he opens a new account and repeats.
 
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