10.8.3 15" Retina improvements?

trombo22 · Feb 6, 2013, 06:34 PM

Has anyone been using the 10.8.3 betas on a retina macbook pro? Have they fixed the graphics problems or general stability compared to 10.8.2?

anzio · Feb 7, 2013, 08:11 AM

What kind of issues were you experiencing?

trombo22 · Mar 2, 2013, 10:27 PM

Wifi on enterprise wpa2 is terrible, other macs connect fine and same with almost any pc. A friend has same laptop as mine and his also has same problem. Messages freezes when I try and search and also will randomly have weird graphical issues where all the people are listed will have scrambled pictures overlaid from elsewhere on the screen. Same thing happens when running display with hdmi. Also slow frame rate when scrolling through webpages and pdfs. I haven't been able to consistently reproduce issues, but they randomly keep happening. From what I have read there is a focus on airport and graphics drivers, and people have said the nightly webkits improve safari. Also kind of off topic but should I be using ~5.2 GB ram with just safari,mail, and messages open?

bkends35 · Mar 3, 2013, 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by trombo22

Wifi on enterprise wpa2 is terrible, other macs connect fine and same with almost any pc. A friend has same laptop as mine and his also has same problem. Messages freezes when I try and search and also will randomly have weird graphical issues where all the people are listed will have scrambled pictures overlaid from elsewhere on the screen. Same thing happens when running display with hdmi. Also slow frame rate when scrolling through webpages and pdfs. I haven't been able to consistently reproduce issues, but they randomly keep happening. From what I have read there is a focus on airport and graphics drivers, and people have said the nightly webkits improve safari. Also kind of off topic but should I be using ~5.2 GB ram with just safari,mail, and messages open?

Not sure why but I've got Chrome and iTunes running and have 3GB of free ram on my 2.8/8/512 rMBP.

Definitely not a good thing though. I should have like 6GB free running 2 light apps.

Xenn0X · Mar 3, 2013, 05:35 AM

latest beta D74 solved all my wifi disconnecting issues on 5GHz band.
also system feels snappier and looks like it's getting less hotter in temps.
shutting down still takes ages.

walkie · Mar 3, 2013, 10:55 AM

ML has being having serious performance issues, Safari is laggy when scrolling, I installed nightly webkit on both early 2010 iMac and early 2013 15" rMBP and now they both scroll like butter, the UI lag started to show up on Lion, I hope they release an optimised update ASAP, since this has been bugging a lot of customers.

wayner8088 · Mar 5, 2013, 04:21 PM

Interesting. I thought ML lag issues were only limited with Retina MacBook Pros. I've been running 10.8.3 12D74 for 4 days and there seems to be some improved performance, but lag in Safari, iPhoto and other apps still exist. FYI gaming flies at 60+ fps.

gusnyc · Mar 7, 2013, 02:39 PM

When are we going to get this magical .3 update?

I know only Apple knows, but I am just venting some anxiety. Things can get a little choppy on the 15'' sometimes.

Krazy Bill · Mar 7, 2013, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by bkends35

Not sure why but I've got Chrome and iTunes running and have 3GB of free ram on my 2.8/8/512 rMBP.

Definitely not a good thing though. I should have like 6GB free running 2 light apps.

Why? What else did you buy the memory for... just to sit idle and unused?

bkends35 · Mar 7, 2013, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Krazy Bill

Why? What else did you buy the memory for... just to sit idle and unused?

I need to run solid works works in windows 7...

vatter69 · Mar 8, 2013, 09:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bkends35

I need to run solid works works in windows 7...

Most modern OS will take advantage of additional ram and will pre-cache files that might get used. It makes no sense at all to let that Ram go to waste.

As soon as you start your precious Parallels, that pre-cached ram is purged and used for that instead.

bkends35 · Mar 8, 2013, 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vatter69

Most modern OS will take advantage of additional ram and will pre-cache files that might get used. It makes no sense at all to let that Ram go to waste.

As soon as you start your precious Parallels, that pre-cached ram is purged and used for that instead.

I use Boot Camp to take advantage of all the ram.

trombo22 · Mar 11, 2013, 10:57 PM

A little off topic but just to respond to the ram comments, I downloaded iStats menus and have been watching the RAM I use parallels with windows 8, and mainly use it for multisim and solidworks. On the mac side I use matlab and the some general ones(mail, messages, maybe pages and safari). I commonly have a reading of near 100% usage(There is some inactive at times but I don't watch it too closely) and it still runs like a champ. Obviously I'm not running intense simulations with all programs at once but for now the ram usage is a non issue to me.

trombo22 · Mar 25, 2013, 11:31 PM

To add onto this, I have found stability and general usage improved with 10.8.3. No major issues yet with 10.8.3

tmagman · Mar 25, 2013, 11:39 PM

i found there to be significant improvements in full screen videos from youtube. Before 10.8.3 i couldn't play youtube full screen as there was severe stutter and lag, now it is fine.

Feb 6, 2013, 06:34 PM	#1
trombo22 macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2013	10.8.3 15" Retina improvements? Has anyone been using the 10.8.3 betas on a retina macbook pro? Have they fixed the graphics problems or general stability compared to 10.8.2?
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Feb 7, 2013, 08:11 AM	#2
anzio macrumors regular Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Barrie, ON	What kind of issues were you experiencing? __________________ 15.4" Retina MacBook Pro, 2.6GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB, GT 650M ; iPhone 5 ; iPad 4th-gen ; Apple TV (x2) ; Time Capsule (2TB) ; Other various Apple devices/old laptops. Developer
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Mar 3, 2013, 05:35 AM	#5
Xenn0X macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2008	latest beta D74 solved all my wifi disconnecting issues on 5GHz band. also system feels snappier and looks like it's getting less hotter in temps. shutting down still takes ages. __________________ iPhone 4GS 16GB iPad 3 16GB 3G Macbook Pro 15 Retina 8GB ram 512GB SSD Thunderbolt Display 27 Inch. TV2
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Mar 7, 2013, 02:39 PM	#8
gusnyc macrumors regular Join Date: Sep 2007	Oh man... when!? When are we going to get this magical .3 update? I know only Apple knows, but I am just venting some anxiety. Things can get a little choppy on the 15'' sometimes.
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Mar 25, 2013, 11:39 PM	#15
tmagman macrumors 6502 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Calgary AB	i found there to be significant improvements in full screen videos from youtube. Before 10.8.3 i couldn't play youtube full screen as there was severe stutter and lag, now it is fine. __________________ rMBP 15" 2.7 i7, 16GB, 512GB Asus G73SW-A1 2.0Q i7, GT460M 1.5GB, 12GB iPad2 64-3G, iPhone 4S 64GB 7D, 15-85, 70-300 DO, 50 1.4, LB Composer DG, LB Scout Fisheye, Canon S100
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Mar 2, 2013, 10:27 PM	#3
trombo22 Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2013	Wifi on enterprise wpa2 is terrible, other macs connect fine and same with almost any pc. A friend has same laptop as mine and his also has same problem. Messages freezes when I try and search and also will randomly have weird graphical issues where all the people are listed will have scrambled pictures overlaid from elsewhere on the screen. Same thing happens when running display with hdmi. Also slow frame rate when scrolling through webpages and pdfs. I haven't been able to consistently reproduce issues, but they randomly keep happening. From what I have read there is a focus on airport and graphics drivers, and people have said the nightly webkits improve safari. Also kind of off topic but should I be using ~5.2 GB ram with just safari,mail, and messages open?
	0

Mar 3, 2013, 10:55 AM	#6
walkie macrumors regular Join Date: Feb 2010	ML has being having serious performance issues, Safari is laggy when scrolling, I installed nightly webkit on both early 2010 iMac and early 2013 15" rMBP and now they both scroll like butter, the UI lag started to show up on Lion, I hope they release an optimised update ASAP, since this has been bugging a lot of customers.
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Mar 5, 2013, 04:21 PM	#7
wayner8088 macrumors newbie Join Date: Feb 2013	Interesting. I thought ML lag issues were only limited with Retina MacBook Pros. I've been running 10.8.3 12D74 for 4 days and there seems to be some improved performance, but lag in Safari, iPhoto and other apps still exist. FYI gaming flies at 60+ fps.
	0

Mar 11, 2013, 10:57 PM	#13
trombo22 Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2013	A little off topic but just to respond to the ram comments, I downloaded iStats menus and have been watching the RAM I use parallels with windows 8, and mainly use it for multisim and solidworks. On the mac side I use matlab and the some general ones(mail, messages, maybe pages and safari). I commonly have a reading of near 100% usage(There is some inactive at times but I don't watch it too closely) and it still runs like a champ. Obviously I'm not running intense simulations with all programs at once but for now the ram usage is a non issue to me.
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Mar 25, 2013, 11:31 PM	#14
trombo22 Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2013	To add onto this, I have found stability and general usage improved with 10.8.3. No major issues yet with 10.8.3
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