Wanna bring your rMB to a screeching halt? Watch the new iPad Pro video.

[Admiral]

I have the same 2011 MBA i5, I believe, and I have to tell you that its UI has become laggy since I upgraded to El Capitan GM earlier this week. I've been using the El Capitan betas all summer on the Retina MacBook, and do report that the performance of El Capitan compared to Yosemite on the rMB is much improved, but it does seem there is a ways yet to go.

My use case sometimes involves playing back video using Movist and when video is playing, this one bogs down quite a bit. My MacBookAir, on the other hand, used to handle multitasking while playing back video without much difficulty. Now it's not so good.

 

[tom vilsack]

I just watched this on a 13" Asus C300 Chromebook and it played just fine.( n2830 2.16GHz/2g ram) Took a few seconds for the page to load,but no issues.

 

[xmichaelp]

I think it has to be El Capitan. I had been noticing a laggy, juddery user interface on my rMB under the El Capitan betas and had chalked it up to the rMB being underpowered, but I made the mistake of "upgrading" my MacBook Air to El Capitan GM and it, too, has a laggy, juddery UI. Disappointing, really, but as it's a software issue it can be remediated in due course.

Of course it could partially be the slow CPU. It's interesting that the iPad Pro has many more pixels to push and is as smooth as butter. Apple could tear US$250 out of the cost of an A9X (or A10X)-based Retina MacBook, and probably get much longer battery life, less heat, and smoother performance with many tasks. Wouldn't that be something? This machine at US$999 or US$1099 would be a no-brainer.

Why would an ARM chip get better battery life? It's a 4.5 watt chip also.

 

[RUGGLES99]

I have a 1.1 and ran the video and scrolled the site and it all ran perfectly. I was using stock safari. Anyone having problems may have issues other than their rmb,

 

[mainframe_module]

hmmm mines okay? 1.1ghz - bit choppy at first but then rendered okay?

not on el capitan though - just latest yosamite

 

[JD2015]

Running El Capitan beta on a mid macbook air 2011 and ran totally fine for me. All software up to date and my broadband is unto 150mb per sec. However some pages take longer to load up on other regular websites but that happens whatever machine and OS you use.

 

[AppleFanatic10]

I tried to use it on my MBA 2015 and it doesn't even load. I'm on 10.11

 

[asaggynoodle]

The problem is that the Ipad Pro is not x86. Unless there is some massive cultural upheaval in the Apple community, you're not going to get the capability of x86 Flagship software in the Ipad Pro even with it's beautiful ARM SoC. I mean, think of software like Xcode or Office 2016. It's just not the same on a mobile device no matter how you spin it. We're still a long ways off until this is realistic concern for a practical business solution for people who need to do real work on software like that.