A Mac with an SSD, no external HDDs, should boot up fast. ?
You can also do the routine maintenance startup routines that have been?
discussed frequently here.?
Zap PRAM
Safe Disk Boot?
SMC reset?
Boot in Recovery and run First Aid?
Denver Dan
If I had those symptoms on my MBPro, the first thing I would do is restart with <Shift> held down (Safe Boot).
Let that finish its clean-and-check routines (invisibly), however long that takes, then restart.
I wouldn¡¯t expect zapping the PRAM to accomplish much on. new machine.
And I haven¡¯t found SMC reset to be helpful for quite a few years.
But my *next* step WOULD be Recovery Mode and Disk Utility First Aid.
Jim Saklad