Hi everyone!
It’s been about 9-10 months using the base variant m2 air that I bought brand new.
Little background: I only use a browser on it mainly, no app downloads or anything, just google chrome with some extensions and that’s about it. Also, I rarely have any extra tabs open, just the main tab and that too for very low resource using websites.
Here are two things I’ve noticed change over time:
Performance Issues: I’ve noticed the performance gradually decrease over time, it used to be hella fast when it was brand new, almost no hiccups, now I notice the whole laptop slowing down while performing the same regular browser tasks like it will just randomly lag out.
Battery Timing issues: It used to easily give me at-least 15-16 hours SOT when it was new, over the past macOS 17 update I think whatever one was the latest, I’ve seen a HUGE drop in battery life. It only gives me around 6-7 hours of SOT now, which is way less than what it originally used to give, and battery timing is something I bought the Macbook for, so I’m extremely disappointed. (Battery Health is 94% now btw, but the battery timing is at-least 50-60% lower.
now my question is, should I sell out my current MacBook and replace it with a brand m3 or the larger m2 air (15 inch)? or is there any optimisations that can be done to my current one?
Can you post screenshots of the CPU and Memory tabs in Activity Monitor? And also let us know how much free space you have left on your disk?