Bug in Illustrator on MacBook Retina with external monitor

I noticed that in Illustrator CS6 - after the Retina update
when I am working on a document on my MacBook Pro Retina - it look fine
but when I connect to external Thunderbolt display - and start moving around objects on layer
I get a bunch of white lines through my graphic where the object rectangle boundries were (in old position and when moved to new position)
this is a display only issue as it does not get exported into final imgae, and it can be cleared by refreshing the screen (drag a window on top of it for example to force a redraw)
however it makes editing very annoying as I'm workign with precision elements and they are getting sliced up with 1 pixel white lines everywhere and I have to go manually clear them every minute or two which is distracting.
Anyone else having this issue? I suppose I'll open a bug report but wanted to see if anyone else noticed it as well.

Yes, you can. I have the Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse and a Dell widescreen display, but if you have a USB keyboard and mouse, it works essentially the same way. Just power everything up, then close the lid on the MBP to put it to sleep. Then, leaving the lid on the MBP closed, press a key or move the mouse, and your MBP will wake using the external display as the primary.
Should be no problem ;))

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