Mountain Lion UI Lag on rMBP !!! (Let's Make this thread serious and hope for a fix)

I personally think the UI lagging bug is a serious issue on rMBP because this machine cost $2000 and up and it lags on UI features such as Mission Control and Space Switching while classic Macbook pros don't. I do understand that the retina display models carries a high resolution display, but I think the quad core CPU should have the ability to handle it (please correct me if I am wrong)



I am hoping and asking anyone experiencing the issue to follow up with this thread and post your concerns. Let's hope for a fix soon and we can really enjoy the beauty a Retina Macbook Pro brings to us.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 27, 2012 7:26 PM

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Oct 30, 2012 3:01 PM in response to TheWaveable

Today I was again in an apple store and tested few machines. It really seems that every MBPr has the lag, so far this is fact. I also tested the MBPr 13 and I was surprised that despite having only the intel graphic card the macbook performed well. Surely it has lags too as its big brother but it seemed that the 13" performs better than the 15" considering the lag. So I had to open far more apps in a new desktop till the lag appeared. The 15" does need less desktops to get the lag. I think this has to do with the size of the display because more pixels have to be computed for the 15".

Oct 30, 2012 3:48 PM in response to orhan_m

So his might drive some crazy, but I was reading macrumors that the 13 inch retina has already received a computer specific update for performance enhancement and bug fixes. If it is indeed working better than the 15 inch it's because apple has already updated the problem specifically on the 13 inch, no update announced for the 15 inch retina. This is rediculous.

Oct 30, 2012 5:44 PM in response to Wayne Chin

Guys Guys, I dont now who you all are!!


I have been using my rMBP 15 for 2 month now.


1) 95% of lags were fixed in 10.8.2 ( if you dont belive me tell me how to make a video on my mac to upload to youtube i will show you any scrolling any where besides SUPER GIANT timeline in facebook coz thats the only place where it can lag a bit but i never watch so many of timeline.


2) I have LG Screen and i dont have any ghosting and trust me i watched it i left my pc for 3 hours with full brightness.


3) I did replace my rMBP first week coz of very minor scratchy so little that they were laughing at me at the store.


So my thoughts that people crying here and you guys do cry i am tired of reading emails from here is just from people who!


1) Can't get it right.


2) They dont have this laptop at all.


3) there just anti Apple people commming here to cry.


Thx for reading and i wish you all get your problems fixed as soon as possible.


Small Update:


I had a problem with mac slowly waking up from a sleep i fixed it with a full wipe and clean installation.

Oct 30, 2012 5:50 PM in response to Fiercy2

Dude, no two computers are alike. I put my rMBP against my buddie's equally equipped rMBP and his scrolls smoothly, flawlessly. Mine scrolls chunks. We both ran Safari, Photoshop and iPhoto, and his clearly does the legendary inertia scroll, smooth gliding. I reinstalled OS X 10.8.2 five times and it still blows chunks. So don't get all cocky and call me, a 30 year Apple veteran, anti-Apple 😟

Oct 30, 2012 5:51 PM in response to Fiercy2

Just record with your smartphone or quick time screen, see here http://etc.usf.edu/techease/4all/getting-started/creating-screen-recordings-with -quicktime-player/

I have uploaded a video on youtube which shows a huge laggy gui performance. This MBPr was alsa updated to 10.8.2. and has still lags. So do the same as I did on the video and be sure you will see the the lag.

Oct 30, 2012 6:44 PM in response to TheWaveable

Everyone here has the rmbp and I bet the majority have many more apple products so no one including myself is a apple hater but having had 4 rmbp computers not including my girlfriends - all of which have lag most excessive in safari scrolling and zooming is unacceptable. i think feircey2 is just trolling. If the models in the store are exhibiting the problem obviously this is not just some radom rare occurance.

Oct 30, 2012 7:44 PM in response to orhan_m

Well i study programming so i dont do any video staff but i have virtual machine with windows 7 up and running quite a few apps + plus i laucnhed nearly every app i can.


Sorry for the video quality blame iPhone 5 or maybe i dont know how to shoot i dont see any lag in my humble opinion.


No i dont troll you guys.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2ZA7Qx46g&feature=youtu.be

his


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-zvL-Qup1mw

mine

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