Macbook Pro with Retina, Mountain Lion graphic jitters

I'm having the exact same problems, have yet to find a solution.

I'm currently moving my iTunes music to my new rMBP.

It is going a little choppy but I'm not sure if it's me using the SSD or just a choppy system.

Also with MBP with Retina, some problems I've been having:

Frequently, when waking from sleep, entire laptop is frozen, can't type in password, no mouse. Closing the lid and opening it again leaves me with a black screen and I have to hold down power to restart.

Terrible battery life. I'm considering going back to Lion for this reason only. Not sure why this is, there really isn't too much that was added in ML except for Notifications...

Also having this issue with my 15" Early 2011 MPB 2.2 i7... pretty sure that it should not be having these stutter issues, as I do HD video in Premiere and FCP with it 🙂

Lots of people are complaining of a slow GUI experience on the new Retina MBPs. It simply seems that the graphics card is struggling to render the high resolution at an acceptable frame rate - the frame rate drops low like playing a graphically intense game on an old computer..

Hopefully Apple/Nvidia will improve the GPU drivers. If not, the only solution maybe to sell your MBP and wait for version two to be released with a more powerful GPU. 😟

You can play Diablo without hiccup, but can't render a mission control screen animation? Not buying it; apple needs to look into this.

bonfire99 wrote:

You can play Diablo without hiccup

At 2880 x 1800? If so, then Apple really needs to get this sorted! 😠

I am having the same issues.

They ran the diagnostics at the genius bar today and it found issues with my battery and display.

I've got 5-7 days wait for it to be shipped out, fixed/replaced, and returned.

Anxious to see what they say since it's a 17 day old machine.

I have the same/similar issues. The strange thing is that it sometimes is very choppy and sometimes smoth. I can also notice a difference if the computer is running on the dedicated graphics or the integrated. Does any one have problem with music play-back in iTunes? Strangly enough it is also choppy.. Seems to be related to typing. A poor poor connection somewhere? A bug?

Hi,

Yes! I have the same issues. When scrolling in Sublime Text 2 which is a simple text editor I experience serious choppyness. Comparing to my old Macbook its terrible, since thats where I do most of my work. Same thing in XCode and thats Apples own product.

I cant believe Apple lets out a laptop for this price that has these kind of problems. I much rather go back to the old screen than have to live with this every day.

I am probably returning this and getting the one without Retina if I dont see a solution in a fee days.

I have the 2.3/16gb version.

Same issue here. Choppy / sluggish UI with itunes glitches. Tried the Recovery (to directly install Mountain Lion without Lion first), but the problem persists.

Same problem here, general slow ui performance, and painfully slow scrolling performance on heavier sites in Safari.

Scrolling inside Facebook is horrible slow for instance. And there are some other glitches inside Safari as well, sometimes the input fields are lagging behind whilte typing, flickering in white, and when using Gmail it's a white square over the whole interface forcing a page reload.

As I wrote in another discussion on this forum I have se same problem with retina MacBook Pro baseline model.

I found problem in Mission Control switching desktops, dock icons problem (its jump is very not smooth), scrolling web pages from Safari.

I have this problems as well + after while of using MBPr I can see in my FullScreened app my desktop ...

Example: I'm browsing web in fullscreen and I can see my desktop (like with 5% of visibility) in the page, mostly on dark web site I see my desktop very well :-(

... I think I will go back to Lion ...

I have a new MBP 15" (non retina), when Im scrolling in any application it snaps back to the begining,(Finder, Word, iTunes, Safari, etc..).Also when I'm scrolling in mission control it snaps back to the first space/desktop.

I dont know if this is happening since I installed Mountain Lion, I had Lion for a day and didnt notice any problems.

Battery is not awesome either. Hope Apple is reading this.!!!