Yeah it's pretty much brand new and for sure within the return window. Maybe there's something wrong with it. I was expecting cool fireworks for sure, but it's been nothing but a PITA thus far.
It's very difficult to follow and engage in technical posts like these benchmarking micro-instructions and so on, where on the face of it the product is simply falling on its face in the most basic use-cases.
I have just started to use a Mac M1 Mini, and am disappointed. It's incredibly slow to download or install anything. Hangs all the time, takes like 5 hours to install Xcode (it's done but the UI hangs leaving you to believe it has more to do). Hangs when cloning a git repo. Gets stuck anywhere and everywhere. Have to force kill everything and restart to knock some sense into it. I was always respectful of Mac users because Windows has had its problems in the past, but after using a Mac for the first time, I hate it more than ever.