Hi everyone!

It’s been about 9-10 months using the base variant m2 air that I bought brand new.

Little background: I only use a browser on it mainly, no app downloads or anything, just google chrome with some extensions and that’s about it. Also, I rarely have any extra tabs open, just the main tab and that too for very low resource using websites.

Here are two things I’ve noticed change over time:

Performance Issues: I’ve noticed the performance gradually decrease over time, it used to be hella fast when it was brand new, almost no hiccups, now I notice the whole laptop slowing down while performing the same regular browser tasks like it will just randomly lag out.

Battery Timing issues: It used to easily give me at-least 15-16 hours SOT when it was new, over the past macOS 17 update I think whatever one was the latest, I’ve seen a HUGE drop in battery life. It only gives me around 6-7 hours of SOT now, which is way less than what it originally used to give, and battery timing is something I bought the Macbook for, so I’m extremely disappointed. (Battery Health is 94% now btw, but the battery timing is at-least 50-60% lower.

now my question is, should I sell out my current MacBook and replace it with a brand m3 or the larger m2 air (15 inch)? or is there any optimisations that can be done to my current one?