mac Studio M2 Ultra - issues

download and run this little "discovery" Utility, Etrecheck, written by a senior contributor here on the forums. It fixes NOTHING. It only reason the exist is to examine your Mac from the inside, using a whole raft of system calls, and compile a report.

If you follow the instructions exactly, the pre-sanitized (of any personally-identifiable information)report can be "Shared" to the System Clipboard, the Pasted into an 'Additional Text' reply window directly on the forums:

How to use EtreCheckPro for free

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You stated previously that you seem to be having general performance problems.

By far the easiest way to cause poor performance, instability, overheating and crashing is to install ANY third-party speeder-uppers, Cleaners, Optimizers, or Virus scanners. or a VPN that you installed yourself. The main reason is that they are relentless in scanning your files, non-stop, looking for things virus-like patterns in Everything. When completed, they do it all again.

The idea that a third party, with no special knowledge of the inner workings of MacOS, can somehow find a simple way to protect your computer — that is not already being done by MacOS itself — suggests that the MacOS developers are somehow "holding out on you". That is absurd.

You should remove any and all (other than Apple built-in) virus scanners, speeder uppers, optimizers, cleaners, App deleters or VPN packages you installed yourself, or anything of that ilk.

Third-party file Sync-ers such as DropBox, BackBlaze, OneDrive, or GoogleDrive can ruin performance, but are not inherently dangerous.

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Readers here are other users like you. Best results are obtained for single issues that Readers can help you think about, suggest some ways to make progress, and try some experiments to clarify or solve your issues.

Long rants about how awful is Apple, when posted here in Apple's house, are likely to be removed.

Surveys -- whether about how widespread an issue is perceived to be, or any other issue, are strictly prohibited in the Terms Of Use.

When you have completely Un-Installed Sophos from your computer, using the software-maker's un-installer, Readers will be willing to discuss some other options for discovering what might be causing the slowness.

¿are you running any non-Apple File-syncers?

Please turn those OFF to debug.

I have the same machine using it in our recording studio with Apple Logic Pro X w/ UA interfaces and lots of plugins that we've paid for. Things don't seem to be optimized considering how such a formidable machine can run so poorly. There are no other options until this type of situation improves. Just got the Studio because the older Apple Mini we were using started going belly up with Logic. Apple gives you Mastering software with Logic now, but 3/4 of the settings won't run unless you have/get the Apple processor. In summary, I had hoped that performance would improve if I made these improvements, but it hasn't. I think that the ball is in someone else's court. Disc Utility is freaking out and causing restarts, too. When I go into Admin mode all seems to be well, but my Studio account is going on strike. Yes - Issues.

jamilfromsaintpaul--

if you have 'exactly the same problem" then please follow the directions posted above to produce an Etrecheck report, and post it back here -OR- on a new discussion.

if you do not have the same problem, please start a new discussion and differentiate your issues better. So far, "it does not perform" does not help readers help you.

¿Have you run that Etrecheck report yet?