It's known that Macrumors forums is resource intensive in Safari, so I view it with another browser plus an ad blocker, though that doesn't explain the difference between intel and M1. Supposedly, there will be a webkit/safari fix at some point that will correct the Macrumors issues, but it hasn't been implemented yet as far as I know
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Thinking of returning M1 Macbook Air
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That’s awful. So sorry to hear about that, and hoping for a speedy recovery for you and your family.
About the “downgrade,” I would personally do a clean reinstall of Monterey before doing a downgrade. Back up all your important data to an external hard drive, wipe/reformat the drive completely and then reinstall the OS from scratch.
I do not recommend reimporting your “profile” via Time Machine to the new installation. It’s safer to create a new user account on the reinitialized system, and then manually copy your documents, photos and so on back over to the new account.
Be sure to follow the instructions explained in a previous MacRumors article shown below when doing this.
How to Clean Install macOS Monterey Easily Using the New Erase Mac Option
Apple today released macOS 12 Monterey, and whenever a new operating system is released for the Mac, some users prefer to perform a clean...
www.macrumors.com
Before even doing this, however, I’d recommend running Apple Diagnostics to ensure that there isn’t an obvious fault with the hardware itself. The instructions for that are here:
Use Apple Diagnostics to test your Mac - Apple Support
Apple Diagnostics, formerly known as Apple Hardware Test, can check your Mac for hardware issues.
If you do this and the computer still is not functioning according to your needs, then I would say it’s time to take it back. Best of luck!
Do you have details? Source? Prices? Specs?
For completion
I wiped and reinstalled the system, though stayed with Monterey as I'm currently away form home and don't have a spare drive to create a bootable installer. Didn't use migration assistant. Feels like a new computer (obviously).
After some days of normal usage, the problem though turns out to be 'Using Google apps in safari' and the solution turns out to be 'using Google apps in chrome instead'. Keeping Safari and as my browser and just using chrome for Google Drive/Docs actually works fine for me. I do wonder is more RAM would have fixed this issue though, or if there's a memory problem with Safari and Google apps that's more than just size. It doesn't give me great confidence in the M1 lasting 10 years though.
I would of course have loved to wait for the forthcoming M2 Air, but I'm only in the US until July and it doesn't seem like it's going to appear before that, so the M1 I got on pre-christmas discount was a good deal. If the M2 is released before I leave I'll consider a trade it.
Foolishly lost my (non-recoverable for reasons) Creative Cloud subscription in this process.
Have a great Tuesday everyone!
I wiped and reinstalled the system, though stayed with Monterey as I'm currently away form home and don't have a spare drive to create a bootable installer. Didn't use migration assistant. Feels like a new computer (obviously).
After some days of normal usage, the problem though turns out to be 'Using Google apps in safari' and the solution turns out to be 'using Google apps in chrome instead'. Keeping Safari and as my browser and just using chrome for Google Drive/Docs actually works fine for me. I do wonder is more RAM would have fixed this issue though, or if there's a memory problem with Safari and Google apps that's more than just size. It doesn't give me great confidence in the M1 lasting 10 years though.
I would of course have loved to wait for the forthcoming M2 Air, but I'm only in the US until July and it doesn't seem like it's going to appear before that, so the M1 I got on pre-christmas discount was a good deal. If the M2 is released before I leave I'll consider a trade it.
Foolishly lost my (non-recoverable for reasons) Creative Cloud subscription in this process.
Have a great Tuesday everyone!