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2015 Macbook Pro's Intel Iris 6100 is so choppy in Yosemite

denilol said:
How long did you try it without 3rd party apps? Based on reading someone else's post here, I tried hiding the menubar icons using Bartender. This has improved mission control degradation over time quite a bit. In particular, Dropbox seems to cause stutter and hiding it has improved things.

I'm on 10.10.3 14D130a
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I tried it for half a day, which was enough to experience the slowdown.

This theory about the menu bar icons is quite interesting, I've never read similar :) It might has something to do with the problem. :)
 
jonahhh said:
People that have lag, have you pulled up activity monitor and checked out what WindowServer and kernel_task are doing?

I feel there is a general issue with Yosemite graphic performance. Something to do with animation or refresh rates?

I have a 13" 2010 macbook pro and under Yosemite, dock hidden, transparency off, if I hit play in Logic so the screen starts scrolling the cpu and fan go through the roof. If I reboot in Snow Leopard, it's fine. It's the same situation for almost anything that animates.

I don't get lag, but then I've disabled as many animations as possible.
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I don't get why you would want to make your OS X look and feel like Windoze. Your Mac (hardware issue based on your description) is clearly having huge problems if you need to disable animations just to get a decent performance.
 
We've seen video captures from choppy laggy installs, not anyone from some described as butter smooth.
Is it not possible to give a clear and simple procedure to reproduce the issue and make a video ? We might then see if there are differences.
 
Stylobic said:
We've seen video captures from choppy laggy installs, not anyone from some described as butter smooth.
Is it not possible to give a clear and simple procedure to reproduce the issue and make a video ? We might then see if there are differences.
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Here is my definition of choppy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tktaJuD9JK4&index=3&list=PLsZWReFinrU5GLvs7ILwGvAVTICcjLhTD

And here is the definition of butter smooth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLl86AfbMjA&index=11&list=PLsZWReFinrU5GLvs7ILwGvAVTICcjLhTD
 
Oh sh*it ! I will get my rMBP 2015 in few days, i will be able to compare now. Thx a lot for the videos.

And you couldnt reproduce this issue in the applestore ?
 
gklka said:
all animations get slower which involve scaling: Mission Control, Minimize, Stack opening. Swiping between desktops is always perfect, so does the scroll in Safari. 60fps. OpenGL is not affected, I can measure exactly the same scores in CineBench after fresh boot as when the animations are choppy
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Swiping between desktops is the part that is worst for me. It is definitely 100% affected... If I have apps open with transparency or fullscreen apps with transparency then swiping between this is very jittery. It's the animation that annoys me the most actually.
 
Stylobic said:
And you couldnt reproduce this issue in the applestore ?
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Like duervo, I was also able to reproduce this on the Retina iMac. Unfortunately most of the machines in the stores are rebooted every day and don't have a 27" external display attached to check the issue. I was specifically asking them to let me try this configuration with the 2014 Nvidia Retina MacBook Pro. My Mac (on the first video) is a Late 2013 Intel-only model. Next time I go to one of the stores, I want to try the 2014 Intel-only model too.
 
Oh I just ordered this laptop :( looks like I'll be returning it before I even open the device.
 
redheeler said:
Based on what you read from complainers on a forum? I sure hope not.
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No thats a good point but now I have read it I'll probably end up looking out for it. Plus I wanted to restore from a backup which has my uni work on it. Hopefully that doesnt affect it too adversely but we will see.
 
gklka said:
Here is my definition of choppy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tktaJuD9JK4&index=3&list=PLsZWReFinrU5GLvs7ILwGvAVTICcjLhTD

And here is the definition of butter smooth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLl86AfbMjA&index=11&list=PLsZWReFinrU5GLvs7ILwGvAVTICcjLhTD
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I've noticed this.. not quite that bad though...

When I was in the Apple store before I ordered my 2015 MBP, I opened all the applications on the dock and checked it out... it was certainly still a little choppy.

The computer I ordered is no different.

It is still much better than my 2009 MBP that I replaced. Do hope they find a solution to this though...
 
blwade said:
I've noticed this.. not quite that bad though...

When I was in the Apple store before I ordered my 2015 MBP, I opened all the applications on the dock and checked it out... it was certainly still a little choppy.

The computer I ordered is no different.

It is still much better than my 2009 MBP that I replaced. Do hope they find a solution to this though...
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People are different. For me this means burning on fire of hell every time I switch windows.
 
I ordered a MBP today for delivery tomorrow. I got the 2.9, 8gb, 512gb model and I hope it doesn't have this issue! For £1,399 i expect perfection.
 
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