Bought Retina 15" -- scroll lag

[jgbr]

Tried this on a mac pro and can confirm bad lag when zooming and resizing.

 

[Pentad]

Folks:

Just bought a retina 15" and updated the OS immediately based on other posts here. Installed office too. Overall, great build quality, but...

1. If I open web pages w/ graphics, kaboom. Test: open nyt.com. Click on article. Expand size of text -- and then I get the spinning rainbow of doom for 60 seconds or more. Once the page finally renders in a bigger size, I can't scroll up or down without major lag.

2. In excel, if I page through a file w/ lots of data, I get scroll lag.

This is easily repeatable and I haven't changed a thing (other than updating the OS and installing office w/ the retina update). I'm using the standard resolution that's retina friendly.

At this point, I'm going to return it, and have no idea what I'll buy next. Any help appreciated.

I would take it back. I did 1 and had no scroll lag at all. I think your MBP might have an issue.

-P

 

[sno1man]

tried on 3 different macs

15 inch retina macbook pro
13 inch macbook pro 2.5 GHZ non retina
13 inch 2011 Macbook air 1.8 GHZ

On all three, if you do the double tap zoom then scroll you get lag. The hesitation seems to be directly proportional to the machine (i.e. the retina shows it the least)

On all three just scrolling at default is lag free.

The effect is even worse on the verge.com

Looks to me a like a Safari issue.

PS: I wonder how many of the "soul crushing lag..." posts are actually this?

 

[Haifisch]

I opened the nyt.com website and although it is not as fluid or snappy as this site, I wouldn't call what I experienced lag. When zooming, the text looks fuzzy as you expand but it only takes a second to load and then it's sharp.

When resizing, it seems Safari will "stutter" if the text size is less than maximum. If you zoomed in beyond max, Safari will limit the size. For whatever reason, it scrolls smooth at max. But it's too big to read.

I got no beach balls in the 5 minutes I was doing the test.

Good luck.

 

[Quu]

I believe this issue is confined to Safari because it doesn't happen in Chrome. Not really a Retina specific issue either as it happens on my Mac when I use Safari and mines not a Retina model. But when I do the same in Chrome, no lag.