Sluggish (new) MacBook Pro performance

Got a new MacBook pro about 2 weeks ago.
Last week when I booted, it had trouble booting and then it did an "Internet restore" for about 30 min. The MacBook rebooted after that and since that time, has booted wel but has had sluggish performance.
For example, as I type this letter, it will respond fine for about 30 seconds, and then all of a sudden pause / freeze for 2 seconds, then catch up to my keystrokes.
Thoughts on what is causing this? I shut down all other aps and also did a clean reboot, but the behavior (across apps, including Finder) continues.
Thanks!

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