M1 Macbook Air super slow

Open the activity monitor app to see what is using all of your memory. You could need to quit some apps that are memory heavy. If you use chrome as your browser, then it could be using a lot of memory.

krisa Said:

"M1 Macbook Air super slow: I just bought and MacBook Air thinking it will be screaming fast with all the rave reviews and so far, I have had nothing but frustration with it's speed. I even upped the ram to 16GB with 1TB of storage but it's slower than my 2010 MacBook Pro. [...]"

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Why Risk a Faulty Mac?

Rather than fiddle with its settings, see about getting this serviced. It may be a faulty Mac. You have a one-year, out-of-the-box, limited-warranty on this. So, here is the Apple Support contact info:

• Contact Us - Choose Locations
• Proceed from there as necessary

Note: Phone calls are taking a bit to go through at the moment, due do lots of calls. And that makes sense because with the Coronavirus Pandemic, many are at home at the moment, with much more time on their hands to contact Apple. So, just stay on the line, and you will get through.