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Retina MBP - visual glitches after returning from sleep

On the new Retina MBP (using the highest res setting), I'm noticing that there are significant visual glitches (ghosting, persistent blocks, lack of redraw, etc...) upon returning from sleep.


Is anyone else seeing this problem?

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Jun 17, 2012 3:21 PM

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Jun 17, 2012 7:28 PM in response to fieldsnyc

From what I've read, Lion isn't optimized for this machine yet. Things like this should be fixed with Mountain Lion (10.8). Try getting your hands on the developer preview of OSX 10.8 and see what happens.


I noticed in the store while testing the base model that things were glitchy/slow. Did some reading and found this to be fairly common. However, I've seen some videos of the same machine running 10.8 (DP4) and things are smooth as butter.

Jun 19, 2012 12:35 PM in response to fieldsnyc

Yup, I'm having the same problem, except that my machine keeps crashing over and over again. I've gone through the console, and it seems like different processes keep crashing (crash reporter, MDS (Spotlight), kernel_task, etc.) I can safely boot into Safe Mode, but if I restart my machine, almost as soon as I get past the login screen, I get screen glitches and the machine either restarts itself or hangs. NOT HAPPY.


MBP Retina 2.7 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB hard drive. I installed all of the latest software updates (Thunderbolt, MBP Retina update, MBP mid-2012 OS X version, etc.)


I transferred over all files and apps from my mid-2011 MBP overnight. I thought it was some incompatibility with installed software on my old machine (from which I'm typing this), so I started uninstalling things as soon as I could get logged in. Little Snitch, gone. EyeTV, gone. SMCFanControl, gone. Going through the Console, I saw that an old ATI program was trying to launch, so I pulled that and all of its associated .kext files out. Nothing worked. So, I'm reinstalling Lion on that machine right now, and we'll see how it goes.


I've spent my entire morning working on this *&(%^ thing. I am NOT pleased. I don't have time to be a beta tester for Apple.

Retina MBP - visual glitches after returning from sleep

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