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I have just started to use a Mac M1 Mini, and am disappointed. It's incredibly slow to download or install anything. Hangs all the time, takes like 5 hours to install Xcode (it's done but the UI hangs leaving you to believe it has more to do). Hangs when cloning a git repo. Gets stuck anywhere and everywhere. Have to force kill everything and restart to knock some sense into it. I was always respectful of Mac users because Windows has had its problems in the past, but after using a Mac for the first time, I hate it more than ever.

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I'm sorry you are having a bad experience. If you spend any time reading on the internet, you can easily see that your experience is a rare exception. Apple gives you 14 days to return it, no questions asked. I assume you returned a computer with so many issues. Good luck with your next computer choice.

uhhh... your mac might be broken. I have one and my friend has one. We both engage in cpu/gpu intensive workloads and this just doesn't happen. Still within the return window? Would be interesting to find out your fan is DOA or something like that...

Yeah it's pretty much brand new and for sure within the return window. Maybe there's something wrong with it. I was expecting cool fireworks for sure, but it's been nothing but a PITA thus far.

It's broken, return it. My M1 MBP is a rocket, and doesn't exhibit any of the negative behavior you are experiencing.

100%, go and exchange it.

It should not be performing like this. I bought a base spec m1 mac mini for testing apple silicon applications on and it has ended up displacing a 2019 16" MBP unexpectedly - the mac mini is far faster in real world usage for me, and your workflow is exactly what I'm doing with it.

Just another to pile on, my 8gb m1 mba has made me stop using my xps 15 with 32gb of ram... that sounds maybe like a storage issue? yeah take it back!!

File a problem with Feedback Assistant. Or exchange it, I suppose.

It's very difficult to follow and engage in technical posts like these benchmarking micro-instructions and so on, where on the face of it the product is simply falling on its face in the most basic use-cases.

Go to the store. You are not in any way getting the typical experience. This thing is by far the fastest computer I have ever touched in terms of UX responsiveness.

My M1 MacBook Air is by far the fastest machine I’ve ever used. Something is definitely wrong with yours.

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