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Macbook Pro with Retina, Mountain Lion graphic jitters

Lion wasn't the best performer on my Macbook Pro with Retina, however, the issues that were supposed to be resolved in Mountain Lion seem to have actually gotten worse. Switching spaces and going in and out of Mission Control is still just as laggy, but other problems have arrissen too. For example, scrolling over my dock, the magnification animation is choppy. Also, when I command to show the desktop the windows jitter for a second. Or when scrolling through web pages in safari or chrome, it jitters as I'm scrolling, or when I hit the top and bottom of a page and it snaps back. Overall, the entire expeirence just seems very unpolisshed, and after spending $2,500 on a new machine, I'm pretty dissapointed in the UI experience.


Anyone else experiencing these problem, or have solutions?


Thanks in advance!

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

Posted on Jul 30, 2012 8:34 AM

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Jul 30, 2012 10:26 PM in response to Faidoca

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...

Aug 2, 2012 12:43 AM in response to Faidoca

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. 😟

Aug 4, 2012 1:11 AM in response to Faidoca

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?

Aug 4, 2012 2:28 AM in response to Faidoca

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.

Aug 7, 2012 10:19 AM in response to Faidoca

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.

Aug 9, 2012 2:21 PM in response to Faidoca

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.!!!

Macbook Pro with Retina, Mountain Lion graphic jitters

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