How is Sonoma on M Series Macs Now?

[Weldor7]

Intermittent flicker, stutter and stalling sometimes when moving between spaces and switching between fullscreen applications and back to desktop. Desktop icon for external storage sometimes not showing up when plugging the drive/memory stick in, sometimes not even showing up in Finder despite being mounted and available in /Volumes. One and the same System setting that require admin privileges will randomly pre-fill my normal non-admin user's name instead of my admin's name. Moving the mouse across the notch in the top screen sometimes make the pointer live behind the notch, sometimes teleporting it across to the other side, randomly. Software Updates regularly telling me there are updates, despite non being available. Screen brightness sometimes starting 2-3 steps above/under last setting, unrelated to "dim screen on battery" setting. And lots more.

The intermittent flicker has been happening to me on external monitors since I bought my M1 Macbook Pro 13", which was MacOS 11. But I have noticed the external storage being finicky more recently. And I've had my board replaced under warranty for crackling speaker issues and usb not working, even charging. The usb charging issue has been resolved, but my speakers are starting to crackle again randomly.

 

[Sciuriware]

The intermittent flicker has been happening to me on external monitors since I bought my M1 Macbook Pro 13", which was MacOS 11. But I have noticed the external storage being finicky more recently. And I've had my board replaced under warranty for crackling speaker issues and usb not working, even charging. The usb charging issue has been resolved, but my speakers are starting to crackle again randomly.

I wish more people would read these messages: if they have similar experiences they can stand stronger in contact
with Apple; if they don't, they may feel happy with their 'perfect' equipment.
;JOOP!

 

[monokakata]

The long-standing issue of Finder's behavior when accessing large external disks remains, but does seem to be a little better. It's now down to about 20 seconds before I can see files on a 6 TB Thunderbolt3 disk.

Forklift shows the files instantly.