Anyone has issue with macbook pro retina 15'' (ivybridge) running OS X Mavericks ?

It seemed pretty obvious to my that the computer's ability to response the command was reduced when multitasking. There were also some graphical lags when moving apps around the screen and going in and out of the Mission Control ? I wondered is it the firmware itself or it is the hardware

You've probably tried these already.
Check the cpu and energy tabs to find out what processes are sucking up power as a first clue. Second, you can try an SMC reset if something is severely off and the fan is running hard. Third, check screen brightness is the same as it was before.
I've found better battery performance on a 2010 Macbook Air.
Peter

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In the area I live in, Bell offers only Fibe 5.1 (802.11 g/b) at this time. I wondered if I purchased a separate router with an 802.11n connection (and disabled the router on the 2Wire modem from Bell), would this solve my issues or is Fibe 5.1 just unable to handle the new "n" technology/speed. I'd like to utilize this computer the way it was meant to be used, but the internet connection that I have leaves much to be desired. Bell won't be upgrading in my area for at least 6-12 months from what they tell me and I refuse to switch to Robbers (I mean Rogers).

I hate to go into a long rant but you may be able to fix your problem by just changing the channel on your 2wire router from ma Bell. They all come with the channel set to a default setting of channel 6 change it to 10. If you are in a high traffic area and they are all set on six you see where this is going. I have a 2 Wire in a high traffic area and I changed mine and it worked like a charm.
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I have opened every application on the machine including serato, ableton, photoshop, VLC playing a 1080P movie, iTunes playing music and youtube playing videos in 2 tabs - and the fans do not spin as fast at it does when nothing is open or running (confirmed with activity monitor too).
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There are a few threads reporting the fan issues you are dealing with which you might want to look at. I have now experianced it with four brand new 2013 rMBP.
Threads reagarding fan issues:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4735947?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4744182?tstart=0

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A number of folks have had graphics issues with the Retina display model... since you're still under warranty, take your unit to your local Apple Store or an AASP and reproduce the problem for them. They should have a 'fix' - even if it means replacing the logic board - that will be of no cost to you.
I couldn't have put up with that as long as you have...
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You might try a reinstall of the OSX but I think your best option is an appointment at an Apple store genius bar for a free evaluation. Bring the picture with you.
Ciao.

I can't be the only one with this issue. MacBook Pro Retina Late-2013 WiFi disconnects after waking up from sleep.

Did anyone buy a MacBook Pro Retina 13" from Best Buy this Black Friday?
I'm having an issue where the WiFi disconnects after the MacBook wakes from sleep but only after a couple of minutes.
Once the WiFi disconnects, I can't reconnect to the same network and sometimes it won't find nearby networks.
I have to turn off the WiFi and wait for at least 5 seconds before turning it back on for it to auto-reconnect to my home network.
If I wait less than 5 seconds, it will continue to attempt connection to the home network but won't connect.
I've tried reformatting and deleting my network configurations as well as resetting my modem, power cycling it, etc.
I am using 2Wire Gateway modem/router from AT&T on b/g network.
I've tried connecting to a friend's network under Time Warner Cable and the same issue occurs.
I exchanged the MacBook at a Best Buy for a brand unopened one (I hope) and the same exact thing happens with this new one.
Really, I can't be the only one with this issue. Unless in a 0.00001% chance I received two defective units in a row?
Please.. does anyone have a clue why this is happening?

You're definitely not the only one. I have the same issue. I spent 6 hours over multiple days on the phone with Apple support trying a variety of things (some of which are mentioned above), and none of them worked. They finally sent me a replacement laptop. I made sure to try it periodicaly as I was moving files and installing applications to see if I ran into it again and things seemed okay at first but now I am running into the same issue and it is terribly annoying. I've got 5 other devices that connect to the same router and I've never had this issue with any of them.
My router is a Linksys E2000. I haven't tried changing the router channel but I have tried to cnnecting to other networks in the building I live in and I have run into the same issue there.

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I am one of the many editor that won't be moving to FCPX and sticking with FCP 7 for the time being.
My question is has anyone used FCP 7 with the new Retina Macbook Pros ?
I'm basically looking to see it FCP 7 is useable on the retina display to help me to decide to buy one or not....My current Macbook Pro is nearly 4 years old and crying for an update but there a few concerns with the new model
1. Screen resolution is actually lower running FCP 7 and other software that isn't optimised for retina display?
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FCP 7 is no longer in apples update lists so there is a chance that it has issues with the newer hardware (thunderbolt). I would guess there must be a firewire 800 PCIe card that could be used via a thunderbolt doc but how fcp is going to behave with it remains to be seen. Also FCP should not be able to take advantage of the retina display for the reason above.
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Hi Matt,
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I AM NOT AN EXPERT. I AM MAKING ASSUMPTIONS. My issue, tech spec's and assumptions are listed below.
MY ISSUE:
My Rocketfish headphones work perfectly with my iMac but not with my Macbook Pro Retina.
The Macbook Pro does recognize the device but when I try to connect, it gives me the following error message:
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TECH SPEC
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Macbook Pro Retina has OS X 10.8.2
MY ASSUMPTION
If I upgrade to 10.8.2 I will not be able to use the headphones.
Or
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REFInd with MacBook Pro, Retina: invalid loader file!

I'm trying to dual boot Arch and OSX on a MacBook Pro, Retina, 15". I've been following the Direct EFI booting (rEFInd) guide, but I've also read through a lot of the related docs. Because many instructions on the web seem outdated based on recent improvements in rEFInd, I will post what I have done so far since this info may be relevant.
1. I resized my harddrive. I installed arch on an ext4 formatted partition (/dev/sda4 with 128M gap before, ie.., sector "+128M" in cgdisk).
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 233.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 116G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 619.9M 0 part
├─sda4 8:4 0 17G 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 99.9G 0 part
2. Running OSX, I installed refind (refind-bin-0.8.0) using the --nodrivers option.
sudo ./install.sh --nodrivers
Installation appeared to be successful.
3. I updated the refind.conf file. The "scan_all_linux_kernels" is uncommented by default, and I uncommented the also_scan_dirs line so that these two lines appear as shown, with everything else default:
scan_all_linux_kernels
also_scan_dirs boot,ESP2:EFI/linux/kernels
Result: rEFInd loads on boot, but no option for Arch appears (only the Mac option).
4. I decide to try a manual menuentry, so I set the scanfor line like this:
scanfor internal,external,manual
Then, I write in an entry for Arch Linux (and comment all other menu entries):
menuentry "Arch Linux" {
icon EFI/refind/icons/os_arch.icns
volume 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4
ostype Linux
loader /boot/vmlinuz-linux
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img
options "rw root=/dev/sda4 rootfstype=ext4 libata.force=noncq"
I verified that vmlinuz-linux and initramfs-linux.img exist and are in the /boot directory in my main arch partition (/dev/sda4).
Result: I get an Arch menu entry, but when I click on it I get this error message:
Starting vmlinuz-linux
Using load options 'rw root=/dev/sda4 rootfstype=ext4 libata.force=noncq initrd=\boot\initramfs-linux.img'
Invalid loader file!
Error: Not Found while loading vmlinux-linux
I also tried these lines for volume, each in turn:
volume 4:
volume linuxmain
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For completeness, `diskutil list` on the Mac gives me:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 124.6 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4 18.3 GB disk0s4
5: 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4 107.2 GB disk0s5
Note that I've tried the above procedure both with the stock refind (refind-bin-0.8.0.zip) and the arch specific refind (refind-bin-gnuefi-0.8.0.zip). In all cases I made sure all the refind files were removed before re-installing. I've already spent a lot of time on this, and I'd really like to get Arch booting, so any help is greatly appreciated!
Last edited by bwv549 (2014-05-15 02:26:11)

I had this problem myself which got me going round in circles for ages. The Arch Official rEFInd package contains v.0.7.9 (and is flagged out of date). Apparently there is an Arch specific problem with v.0.7.9 and the most recent (until today) v.0.8.0. The only way I could get it to work was to use the v.0.7.8 gnuefi binary from sourceforge. I've been in touch with the developer who has released v.0.8.1 today which he thinks fixed the bug, but I've yet to test it.... Let us know how you get on.
When the package gets updated I would hope for it to be built from gnuefi, not the tianocore EDK2010 as it is currently, nor even 2014 which all seems unduly burdonesome....

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