Yes. I will probably take mines back and it’s been about a week. I contacted Apple and sat on the phone about this twice. The solution was to take it in and get it assess or the operating system reinstalled. But I see I am not the only one with this issue. It’s never been this bad with any of my macs in the past. I’ve had it crash with regular apps like safari. It’s crashed with different obs apps. It has crashed with the sims 4.
And although the App Store has sim city offered by aspyr and the App Store says sim city is compatible with m1 mini, it really isn’t. I was able to get to the opening page of sim city and as soon as I hit start, the app crashes. The worst part about the freezes and the crashes is that most of the time, the entire computer freezes. There is no opportunity to force quit bc you can not click outside the app. I am forced to either hit the power button after a while or sometimes, to my surprise, it shuts off on it own. Not restart just shuts itself down entirely, lol. Odd.
I want to keep it, because I feel like eventually it will be, and it is, ahead of the technological curve in terms of processors. Loading times on sites are super fast. However, the constant freezes and complete system crash make it not worth it for me. The time I use to restart the computer, takes up more time than using an older gen Mac on the internet. Growing up in the era of when the computer shuts down before you get to save—this is reminding me too much of my youth; and in a bad way, lol. I really don’t feel like waiting on this one. For all the other apps and all the third party apps that I use (even though the apple provided apps still freeze as well, yet they say it’s supposed to be better), to catch up. I got work to do. Work that I hope I can save before my computer shuts down automatically. Honestly, such a bummer.
