My M2 MacBook Air is very slow, almost unresponsive.
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Original Title: Very slow MacBook Air M2
MacBook Air, macOS 15.5
Please determine if the same problems occur in "Safe Mode": Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
1) You have no Time Machine or other backup.
Other backups can be Clones using CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper.
2) Proton VPN WireGuard is crashing and needs to be removed.
macOS is security without the need for third-party AV-ware or VPN's. macOS - Security - Apple
3) You have a lot of third-party programs that I'm not using or familiar with.
MS Office, OneDrive, Steam, OBS Virtual Camera, Voxal.Vad, OpenAI and others from the App Store.
All I can suggest at this point, is to stream-line and run less of those third-party programs at the same time.
EtreCheckPro is an excellent tool for finding and sorting out various problems.
Download and run the free version of EtreCheckPro, from > https://etrecheck.com/en/index.html
Then post back here with your Report, as per > How to use the Add Text Feature When Post… - Apple Community
Just to add to the advise by @den.thed
Runaway user process - A user process is using a large percentage of your CPU.
Then, there is the issue of Google Chrome
Short and unpopular suggestion for some
May consider an alternative www.brrave.com which is essentially Google Chrome without the Google baggage
Refer to the Posting by Respected Contributor @ John Galt
Application memory error on my MacBook Pro - Apple Community
Refer to the Posting by Respected Contributor @ Kurt Lang
etrecheck... Mac running slow - Apple Community
The lagging reduced. Still lagging.
+1
I only have Safari and Arc (doesn't use that much) in my Mac.
Google Chrome is installed is it not ?
After reading from the two different fellow Contributors posting
Arrive at your own conclusions
MacBook Air M2 extremely slow and unresponsive
