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MacBook Pro isn't Pro at all. It can't even display a simple web page

Mildredop said:
My two-month-old MacBook 'Pro' is having enormous trouble. It's choppy, scrolling slowly, then fast, then stopping.

It's rubbish. It's no better than my three year old MacBook Air.
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Get it checked out. My early 2011 has no problems with that page.
 
My 2012 rMBP and 2009 Mac Mini were able to display the web page. I'm not sure what the OP's issues are, but I'm not seeing any problems :confused:
 
I find my MBP late 2013 to be very choppy as well. Fast scrolling in a PDFs is just unbearable. I'm happy to have my old 2010 MBA 11", that thing still flies!
 
No problem on my iPhone. It's a bastard of a page, check your Internet connection. Maybe that's the issue and not the MBP
 
Problem is with the Independent's servers and web design.

It is one of the worst designed pages I've loaded in a while.

PDFs I find work better in Adobe reader than preview. This saddens me because part of the core of OS X is Quartz. Which is effectively display PDF.
 
iamfredrik said:
No problem scrolling the page on my late 2013 rMBP, but my iPad 3 was slow as an ass.
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dyt1983 said:
I also tried the page also on my 15" rMBP late 2013... no problems in Firefox or Safari. Safari was snappier.
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sonicrobby said:
Even no problems on my iPad, and all knows thats far from a pro machine. There is something wrong with your system, take it to the Apple Store?
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jonbravo77 said:
The page works great on my Mid 2014 MBP.
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Could you try this one? This page is even worse on my MacBook 'Pro'.


http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...us-7-2013-lollipop-ota-update-pulled-off.html

Edit: In fact, I'd say this web page is unusable in both Chrome and Safari. Scrolling is near impossible.

But it's absolutely fine on my Nexus 7 tablet! This MacBook Pro is rubbish!
 
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MacBook Pro isn't Pro at all. It can't even display a simple web page

Well, it's lovely with Adblock and Ghostery...

Disable both of those and it takes well over 30 seconds to load in Safari 7.1.2 on my 2011 Mini (~12Mbps connection), 'Safari Web Content' rises to 125% of CPU, and the bleedin' fan steps up by 1000rpm.

But I do get to see a lovely spangly Nina Ricci advert.

Ghostery claims to have found sixteen trackers, which is fairly extreme.

All UK national newspapers are pretty grim experiences if you allow them to load as intended. This article is a couple of years old but not much has changed since then.

EDIT: strangely that Android Central page loads pretty much instantly for me, even without Adblock and Ghostery paused.
 
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Mildredop said:
Could you try this one? This page is even worse on my MacBook 'Pro'.


http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...us-7-2013-lollipop-ota-update-pulled-off.html

Edit: In fact, I'd say this web page is unusable in both Chrome and Safari. Scrolling is near impossible.

But it's absolutely fine on my Nexus 7 tablet! This MacBook Pro is rubbish!
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Loaded fine on my early 2013 Macbook Pro. Scrolling was as smooth as normal, even though I now have an Android related website in my history. Thanks a lot. :)
 
So a bad bit of coding...

Mildredop said:
Could you try this one? This page is even worse on my MacBook 'Pro'.


http://forums.androidcentral.com/go...us-7-2013-lollipop-ota-update-pulled-off.html

Edit: In fact, I'd say this web page is unusable in both Chrome and Safari. Scrolling is near impossible.

But it's absolutely fine on my Nexus 7 tablet! This MacBook Pro is rubbish!
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and endless adverts and trackers make this a terrible web page but that is somehow apples fault?? Your nexus 7 will be running a stripped down mobile version of the website not a fair comparisson.

If your judge of a how a computer works revolves around issues with specific web pages then you really need some lessons in how they work....
 
2011 15" Macbook Pro - No problems whatsoever. When I scroll trough the thing and watch at the CPU activity in iStat, it doesn't even go above 25% activity on any of my cores.

What browser am I using? Opera with Adblock, so my guess is that your browser is just displaying some really badly made ads using Flash.
 
I have a pretty badass computer at work and even on that the website took a bit longer than necessary to load...bad design
 
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