Macbook Pro 17" scrolling flicker

[Sketchr]

I just bought my first mac , yay! Have only used pcs.

But the problem is that I'm seeing a horizontal line flicker when I scroll with the trackball. It doesn't happen when I scroll using the arrow key or during video so far.

I just bought it last week. Is this commom? It's annoying as heck for such a spendy machine. Should I exchange it or will it happen on another machine too?

 

[ssdar]

I also have this horizontal flickering somethines it disappears but when it occurs its with fast scrolling on my uMBP with both 9400m/9600GT. It also a problem on my Mac Pro with 8800GT, not with the Ati2600HD. So maybe it has something to do with poor nvidia drivers.

 

[Sound Evolution]

I have the same on my MBP 17"

It don't bother me though. As long it don't flicker with fixed imaged, and that is not the case.

With best regards,
Bas

 

[Sketchr]

Ok, talked to a mac genius and few things reduced this problem for me. I'm a new mac user so I also learned a few other things.

I turned off Develop.
I widened my window some on safari (this is where I was experiencing the flicker)
Activated the one touch click on the trackpad.

So far so good. Hope it is gone. This machine rocks!

 

[Frosties]

Ok, talked to a mac genius and few things reduced this problem for me. I'm a new mac user so I also learned a few other things.

I turned off Develop.
I widened my window some on safari (this is where I was experiencing the flicker)
Activated the one touch click on the trackpad.

So far so good. Hope it is gone. This machine rocks!

The screen flicker is a known problem with the webkit. You can do a search here and find many posts about this flicker. Last post I read here about this flicker talked about that osx 10.6 should have this fixed. Let's hope so.