MBP retina display refresh problems

My MacBook Pro Retina Display laptop is having display refresh issues. hard to explain whats going on, but its basicly lagging. When I open a new window, not everything shows up, sometimes only a button will show up. If the whole window does show up and I try to move it, the frame will be ghosted where every I move it. The only way I found to fix this is to restart the computer.
Its completely updated
I tried turning off the automatic graphics switching

Yes I have a gripe at the trend in Apple design towards a sealed box design. I don't care about batteries bieng selad in or screens being fused to the lid but I do want to choose upgrade RAM later and HD later. I also would like to have a desktop replacement mobile workstation with options of 2GB of KQuadro 1000 or 2000 and of adding up to 32GB of RAM. This is not advanced tech but readily available from two leading windows vendors.
I prefer to stay with Apple as its customer care and quality control is superior. However, I cannot buy such an expensive computer with so little upgrade potential and merely 1GB of VRAM. I agree the Retina display is wonderful but very few of my clients will ever use one to see my content.
HP has come out with a modular design for their Z820 towers and mobile workstations which are well up to Apple standards. Their customer support is not and that's why I'd like to stay with Apple.
I am merely griping about the closed box approach and I am not alone amongst the content creators who kept Apple afloat before it dropped computer from its name. I merely want to choose when I upgrade my RAM and HD and choose the GPU on a top of the line PRO laptop. Is that really asking too much? Why would Apple not want my custom anymore? Why do you think it's just griping? I could reply: do you accept everything you are given?
We should be on the same side. I have bought Apple computers for years and my studio has a fleet of Mac Pros and more.
dosers wrote:
There are no USB 2 or 3 connections problems I know of - or that I have noticed. Dull Screens? Yellow Tinged? First I hear of it. Do you just have a gripe that you can't order 32GB Ram with it (show me a windows system in even close to the same package / dimensions that does) or some other video card?
If there is a refresh problem, it seems to be limited at this point.

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joshcali wrote:
actually.... it doesn't.
the 1920 is simulated, and apple doesn't recommend it.
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actually.... it doesn't.
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