i’m a senior in college and for the past 3 years i’ve used a 2020 13” inch macbook pro. it was amazing and did everything i needed for university and then some. last year i spilled some water on it and it stopped working completely it made more financial sense to get a new computer than to pay the price they wanted to fix it. so it’s bricked essentially. i got a m2 macbook air as a replacement after hearing such good things about it. it is genuinely the worst machine i’ve ever used and it makes it near imposssible to do do work. nothing loads from webpages to programs and i can’t deal with it anymore. my course load requires using adobe suite and i can’t do that on here reliably. i’m at a crossroad because i spent $1700 on the computer and apple care for 3 years. i’m planning on selling the m2 air and fixing the pro but i’m really stuck and would love some advice. or does it make sense to invest in an m3 a pro as a method of future proofing. any advice would be greatly appreciated
Something is seriously wrong with your MacBook Air M2. I’ve got one and can easily run Unity (a game development tool), Brave Browser with a bunch of tabs, Spotify, Discord, Visual Studio and a few other odds and ends. And this is only the 8GB model.
I’d check Activity Monitor as others suggested and also check the Console app to see if it’s logging any errors from any software. Hopefully it’s as simple as finding what’s borking your system and addressing that issue. Maybe backup your data and doing a reinstall.
If it’s still under warranty also take it to the Apple Store and have them check it out.