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 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.
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.
It's tempting and enticing to want to think that way, however, lockdown in corrupt South Africa was and is harsh and brutal to the extent that people aren't allowed to roam freely in nature. People and children were arrested, assaulted, handcuffed, etc. for taking a walk or going for a quick surf on a deserted beach.