Retina Macbook Pro Scrolling Lag Fix

[SuperSnake2012]

Not sure what effect your resolution has on this, but for a few months I was using 1920 x 1200. Just switched back to the default retina resolution of 2880 x 1800, and I noticed that all my lag went away. Not sure if the computer has a harder time rendering that resolution. When I take screenshots at 1920 x 1200, it will save them as 3840 x 2400, so I feel like the Mac is still doubling the pixels, creating more work for the graphics card.

I tried using Webkit it doesn't seem to work with some of my Safari extensions. Couldn't get the Reddit enhancement suite to work with Webkit.

 

[AirThis]

If you like the dock on the bottom but want the 2D look instead (I think it looks cleaner- Jony Ive would approve) you can run this command in terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

It also seems to fix any slight stuttering you might see.
If you want the 3D look back just change the YES to a NO and run it again.

I can't see any difference in speed. But it looks much better.

 

[chad.petree]

In itunes the scrolling is really choppy too i hope they do something to fix it people say i should switch to the "best for retina" configuration but what's the point of having a laptop with better than HD resolution if the actual working space is the same as a 1280x720 laptop (except that it looks more defined) ? work space is important too, i use my mac in "looks like 1680x1050"

 

[phinsup]

I am using the nightly build and the scroll and typing lag on Facebook is completely gone.

 

[gr8tfly]

Just installed today's SMC update http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1559, and just a quick scan of sites that exhibited the jerky scrolling are silky smooth now (the sites were from memory, so this is somewhat anecdotal).

I haven't installed 10.8.3, yet, but they have also addressed zoomed scrolling performance in Safari.

 

[alexman128]

I found something interesting

I tried the solutions posted here, but they didn't show any appreciable improvement of the problem of the lag, but I checked the system logs and found the following which is also a common problem of Mountain Lion

Apr 5 15:35:28 MacBook-Pro-de-Manuel.local mdworker[913]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
Apr 5 15:35:28 MacBook-Pro-de-Manuel.local sandboxd[914] ([913]): mdworker(913) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd

So I safe booted like many times before to solve this issue (temporarly though) and then browsed the verge.com in safari and most of the lag dissapeared, so I think that the guys that say that they don't have the problem must not have the mdworker problem either, It is worth saying that I have the latest version of SMC and 10.8.3 update, and only after updated to that version is that safe booting solves the lag problem for me, I mean this is the first time that I safe boot after the update so it is the first time I noticed the improvement, and also that it doesn't eliminate the problem completely but it improves it like 70% which is a lot, I hope that apple continues optimizing performance because rMBP are not cheap and this is my first apple product and I am very dissapointed for these issues (I also have the ghosting problem) so if they don't solve them this is going to be my last apple product.