Macbook Air 2017 Lagfest

Went from OCLP Ventura → Sequoia and it felt like I was straight-up torturing this MacBook Air 2017. Stock SSD + 8GB RAM maxed out 24/7… total lag festival.

Did a clean install back to the last official support (Monterey) and yeah—tolerable… but still kinda sluggish.

And no shade, but I don’t get the people saying “stock SSD is smooth on OCLP” on this exact model. Like… is your definition of smooth = waiting 10 seconds for the cursor to catch up while you click around? 💀😂

At this point I’m going even older: Catalina. Been watching reviews saying Catalina is basically smooth again—Mojave vibes. Sucks to be poor, but at least my laptop might stop crying. 😭🤣