Just installed Monterey on my M1 MacBook Air and overall, it feels a lot faster than Big Sur. Apps load quicker, moving the windows around feels like Windows 10. Or is it all my imagination?
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Is it me or does MacOS Monterey feel a lot faster?
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Almost every system feels faster when freshly upgraded. Just give it time and you might see it slowing down to glacial speeds
Probably, Big Sur was bad. So Monterey beta 1 should is been more optimised than Big Sur beta 1. Big Sur was a total redesign too that could have made Apple focus less on speed/snappiness, so Apple in Monterey should have made better performance improvements.
I noticed the difference off the bat, the system is more responsive and launches applications faster.
So it's not just me. It definitely feels faster overall both on the M1 mini and the Intel 16" MBP.
indeed, the ui feels really snappy.
but they probably haven’t started breaking everything yet
but they probably haven’t started breaking everything yet
made a new volume, installed to the new volume, but then used migration assistant to transfer over all of my settings and such.
so effectively more like an in place upgrade i suppose
yeah, i’m using it a lot. the only issue i’ve found is that the system preferences window gets scrambled sometimes
of course when i’m doing work i boot back in to big sur to be safe
I just updated, everything feels smoother , and the appearance is different, more sharp looking. Safari tabs are really annoying, and that is my only regret so far.
You gonna get used to it after two days. The tabs are cool but I might turn off the color background transparency thing.
Also on early 2015 13" MBP - easy installation and no noticeable performance loss...everything working as it should. Best beta1 I can remember.
On a 2015 15" MBP, I can tell a difference between 11.4 and 12 DP1 easily aswell. Booting is so much faster than Big Sur. Logic feels slower but that is probably because it's on a DP.
I dont see any color background transparent, but it turns black sometimes, i think when it is in low power mode?
I am not used to those tabs yet, they are still really annoying and move back and forth, and the tab groups come and go on the left side as they please.. I am really hoping that in an update, it changes behavior significantly.
It feels faster to me as well and the battery usage seems even lower than before (!)
it feels... smoother, more than, perhaps faster here (on both my macs, coming from big sur). anyway, so far, running really well.