Hey guys, 10.10.3 is out... so could you please post back if you notice any improvements on UI performance? Thanks!
Installed the update on my Pro 13" Retina Mid 2014, and it worked smooth for a while, as after all the previous updates, but, with time, it gets worse, so after a few hours, it started to lag much worse than even the last beta.
The problem is not fixed yet. I miss the days of Snow Leopard.
Still waiting for a miracle... first time I am disappointed with Apple. Miserable OS X release. Shame!
Damn, that's disappointing. Thought this update would solve the problem. At this rate I might just wait for 10.11 to be released before upgrading since that's supposed to be a maintenance release.
Even the latest 15" 2014 rMBP w/ 2.8ghz lags in yosemite. Even with the discrete gfx card being used, at 1920x1200 its not always able to do UI animations at 60hz. For example, the first time notification area is opened in a while it isn't perfectly smooth. Once open, keep opening and closing it after that and its 60hz. Safari also doesn't scroll always at 60hz. sometimes there are small judders.
I've filed a bug report, and its nothing I can't live with, but there is no good reason any animation should be under 60hz. EVER.
Lets hope they fix it across the board with a software or driver update
BTW I find 10.10.3 has improved things a bit over 10.10.2, but still lags.
Since the 10.10.3 update, I got a bug that I can't live with, and it's really horrible, from 30 to 30 seconds the system freezes for about 2 seconds than resumes. I'll fresh install 10.10.3 on another partition to see if it goes away or not. Can't get work done in this manner...
I was thinking you don't happen to have something suspicious in /Library/LaunchAgents and/or /Library/LaunchDaemons ?
It could be that there is something running that triggers the slowdown. I'd also check Activity Monitor.app and sort by CPU usage to see if there's some process that users more CPU than it should.
For me OS X 10.10.3 is running just fine.
I ordered the MBP 13 2015 i5 version 8gb with 256g pci last week online (from Paris) and I confirm the issue..
It s my first apple machine so I imported nothing to my new icloud account.
I directly noticed slowness when launching the launchpad or when I open I window or minimize it.. I also found safari slow comparing to chrome..
My wife have the MPA 2013 and it is faster .. No issue
I don't have battery issue.. Like some people in the forum.. I stopped to use chrome to use safari I heard that chrome is a bad battery consumer (I use the browser only for YouTube so I don't care all the internet tasks I do it on my phone)
I guess it a related to yosmite I don't believe that a i5 new generation bi processor cannot animate a window... But still not acceptable for an expensive machine !
Hope ther is an update soon (the last update did nothing)
Even the latest 15" 2014 rMBP w/ 2.8ghz lags in yosemite. Even with the discrete gfx card being used, at 1920x1200 its not always able to do UI animations at 60hz. For example, the first time notification area is opened in a while it isn't perfectly smooth. Once open, keep opening and closing it after that and its 60hz. Safari also doesn't scroll always at 60hz. sometimes there are small judders.
I've filed a bug report, and its nothing I can't live with, but there is no good reason any animation should be under 60hz. EVER.
Lets hope they fix it across the board with a software or driver update
BTW I find 10.10.3 has improved things a bit over 10.10.2, but still lags.
Only sort of related... A 13" MBP with dedicated video would be really nice.
Since the 10.10.3 update, I got a bug that I can't live with, and it's really horrible, from 30 to 30 seconds the system freezes for about 2 seconds than resumes. I'll fresh install 10.10.3 on another partition to see if it goes away or not. Can't get work done in this manner...
What software do you have installed - anything that digs deep into the OS like 'little snitch' or a virtualisation software like VMWare or Fusion?
My specs are:
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
3.1 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3
Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB
No problems here, clean install of 10.10.3, no third party extensions, tweaks etc. with pretty much all the software I run straight from the AppStore (bar XLD and iFFmpeg).
Hmm, thank you for the hint! I'll give it a look and see what's going on there.
Btw, could you please provide the specification of your computer on which you run OS X Yosemite? It's interesting to know because I'm trying to narrow down and see on what type of hardware does Yosemite lag.
At work I have a MacBook Pro (15", Late 2011) with 1 GB Radeon 6770M graphics and 16 GB RAM (Intel HD 3000 as integrated graphics). The CPU is the i7 four core 2.4 GHz version.
I have it connected to a 1920 x 1200 screen and it handles it well I think.
Retina displays simply take an insane amount of horsepower to drive the UI. I'm using a non-retina 2012 MBP with Intel HD 4000 graphics, and just about everything in Yosemite except for the Finder runs completely smooth and lag-free. It's a tradeoff, but I think most people would rather have a Retina display with a little bit of lag than a non-Retina display that runs buttery smooth.