Macbook pro not working as should

extremeley annoyed how i have to use my £200 4 year old laptop to do this because my 1 day old macbook is incapable. Got this yesterday and once you open it it wont connect to wifi for a about 10 minutes. it will say its connected tot the point but safari and any other apps wont be able to connect and will say theres no connection. after about 10 minutes it does actually work.... when i try to run ableton live which is the main reason i spent £1600 on this thing, it takes a good 40 seconds to load then hangs the loading cursor and i cant do anything in it? again my cheap crap laptop can open ableton i about 20 just isnt powerful enough to run the synths but it will open before audio is played. this mac should be able to run my projects 5 times over and it can even open the program or work at all. after this the whole thing just locks up and goes extremeley slow so i have to shut it down. wait another 10 minutes to use the internet and its jsut iritating. really bad experience of switching to mac almost wish i'd just bought a windows laptop.

to add what just happened then, an application timed out of loading for so long it asked me to force quit. i did that and the whole screen went grey and i had to shut off by the power button

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