[cassandratt]

My M1 Mac blows away my 3 year old desktop outside or raw graphics output due to the desktop having a 1080. It's such a massive power leap, it's difficult for me to believe that you bought a M1 Mac. I suspect you have hardware, or PEBKAK issues.

[Nextgrid]

Raw performance as measured in benchmarks, sure.

But the newer OSes do feel more bloated and indeed are sometimes slower. My 12-inch Macbook (low-powered dual-core i5) on Mojave feels much faster at opening built-in applications and simple tasks than my M1 running Monterey, and yet I can't think of any Monterey feature that I actually use over what Mojave already had - my workflow is exactly the same but now I seem to have to withstand a performance tax.

[dannyw]

Latest versions of Mac OS connect to the Internet and gets apples permission before opening an app.

If you are on a high latency network, eg weak wifi signals, you'll be waiting 200-300ms.

Those on super fast internet don't notice, and think it's a problem with you, but no, it's Apple.

[threeseed]

> Latest versions of Mac OS connect to the Internet and gets apples permission before opening an app.

Pretty sure this is only on first time launch to verify the notarisation.

It doesn't happen every time.

[cassandratt]

Is that only for the App Store? I'm not seeing that traffic.

I live in a rural area, city under 40k. We don't have amazing internet.

[sneak]

No, it's for all apps.

[cassandratt]

This isn't my experience at all. I'm feeling fortunate that we don't use the same stack. ;)

[AnonHP]

A tangential correction: it’s PEBKAC, not PEBKAK, as written in your comment. The last letter stands for “chair”.