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oklaonion

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Mar 24, 2011
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As the title suggests, I have a 13-inch Macbook Air M2 that I bought last November. Overall, it's the best computer design I think I've ever owned, but it's also the worst-performing. The computer locks up and "stutters" at seemingly random times. Once it starts it keeps on. I don't do any heavy tasks, it's mostly running Safari and Chrome simultaneously (I keep separate browser windows open for two separate jobs).

As far as I can tell the issue is Safari-specific - the problem only seems to occur when Safari is up and running with more than a few tabs. When I click between the tabs the computer will often just lock up/freeze for several seconds. It's pretty infuriating. I keep thinking a few updates will iron things out and I keep being disappointed. Has anyone else run into this? Any suggestions?
 

iMacDragon

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Oct 18, 2008
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Check memory usage, this sounds like swapping from badly memory intensive websites. Though I've not noticed anything this bad on mothers m2 air
 
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