New Macbook Air Screen Distortion

[msullivanxi]

Ok so I have a new Macbook Air (maxed 2.0 i7, 8gb ram, 512gb flash) and when I switch between different spaces I get like screen distortion where it looks like parts of the screen need to catch up with the rest of it. Kinda looks like what a VCR fast forwarding would look like just less intrusive but the same feeling of jaggityness. It was running mountain lion DP4 fine till about 2 days ago when this started happening (I havent installed anything new), when I installed the GM it persisted but then I made a clean intall partition and the problem was gone

Any ideas why this is happening.

I'm a little frustrated as this is brand new.

 

[Barna Biro]

when I installed the GM it persisted but then I made a clean intall partition and the problem was gone

If I understood right, you're saying that now everything is fine? If that's the case, the most likely some files got corrupted while you were playing around with Mountain Lion ( updating from Lion ).

After the fresh install, the ML files didn't conflict anymore with the Lion ones and that of course resulted into the disappearing of your previous problem.

 

[msullivanxi]

No I did a clean install and had no problem then I did a time machine restore and the problem persisted.

 

[Barna Biro]

No I did a clean install and had no problem then I did a time machine restore and the problem persisted.

Exactly what I've previously stated... There must have been some corrupt files in your system ( most likely due to the alpha / beta ML upgrade from Lion ). You've saved those corrupt files / settings in a backup and of course when you restore the backup, you're back where you started ( all previously saved corrupt files are migrated back to your notebook ).

Don't do the backup... Or backup only the files that you really need and restore only those.

 

[msullivanxi]

Ok so I did another clean install everything was fine then I installed some apps and it went all wonky again and it went wonky again.

 

[Barna Biro]

Ok so I did another clean install everything was fine then I installed some apps and it went all wonky again and it went wonky again.

Take it to an Apple store and have it checked out.

 

[kodeman53]

then I made a clean intall partition and the problem was gone

It's working now, so why do you care?