Mabook Air M2 15 Inch slowdown issues
I have the entry level MacBook Air M2 15 inch with 8G of Memory and 256G SSD.
I recently had to bring my 2020 iMac to the apple repair under apple care due to a failing power.
Anyway, using the MacBook Air M2, I was surprised that it did not take much to slow down the laptop.
- OBS: With OBS running taking a USB feed from my iPhone 14pro for video, Virtual camera mode activeated
- Zoom: accessing OBS virtual camera thru a USB C Dongle, Shure MV7 connected directly to the MBAir
- One Safari window open using 200 Mb of memory.
- One presentation in Power Point shared in zoom, no animation or video
The memory pressure goes up and turns orange in the activity monitor. This is no problem since this happens to my other MacBook Air M1 with the same donfig.
However, the MacBook Air M2 15 starts to crawl when switching apps and the voice and video in OBS and zoom goes out of sync when swap file increases to 700MB.
This make the Macbook air M2 slower than my MacBook Air M1!
Has anyone seen this issue?
Is this a MacBook Air memory issue or is it a USB Hub issue?
MacBook Air 15″