I get lag scrolling web, scrolling in word processors (especially Word), and in UI stuff like flipping through spaces. Now that my machine has stopped indexing, I can say this is much resolved (though not fully). I haven't tried MS Office yet though. Where I still mostly see lag (and admittedly, this is where it most annoys me) is in Pages when I have my window maximized and zoomed to fit screen width. It's still jumpy here, but better than it was. At actual size it's almost fine.
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Any experiences with New Macbook and El Capitan Public Beta?
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I get lag scrolling web, scrolling in word processors (especially Word), and in UI stuff like flipping through spaces. Now that my machine has stopped indexing, I can say this is much resolved (though not fully). I haven't tried MS Office yet though. Where I still mostly see lag (and admittedly, this is where it most annoys me) is in Pages when I have my window maximized and zoomed to fit screen width. It's still jumpy here, but better than it was. At actual size it's almost fine.
Yup, that's the 'glitchiest' part of El Capitan for me so far
No offense but any user who doesn't know that shouldn't be using beta software. Genius bar help might be a problem for software problems..
No offence taken, but I did realize that was the issue, right? I figured out why it was so laggy after installing El Capitan. I just wanted confirmation that what I thought was happening, actually was.
You could've written less and still answered his question. The answer is "Yes, it re-indexes."
After some more usage, the battery life was pretty horrible. It didn't average more than 4-6 hours, if that. I reverted back to Yosemite.
I've had a really strange experience even though on the first charge cycles on El Capitán I did not notice any differences, now the last two days battery life has been awful, it's been cut to half since Yosemite. I just hope it's a software issue and not a computer problem.
Same has happened to me, good to know I am not the only one, it seems most people aren't experiencing this issues, whats strange for me, it's on the first cycles on El Capitán I didn't se this problems, I just hope it's a software issue
Did going back to Yosemite solve your problem, I downgraded but at least on my first cycle on Yosemite, estimate with 50% battery shows me 2 hours with only Safari open and brightness at 50%
For me battery issue is really strange, now that I went back to Yosemite battery has improved but it's really inconsistent on moments with same usage sometimes it drains really slow and battery tells me there's 10 hours left on others time with same % of battery and only using safari it tells me 4 hours left and it drains much faster.
I just can't get what the problem with my mac is
I just can't get what the problem with my mac is
The estimated time is based on your most recent usage, which is why it fluctuates.
yeah I know that, but before I didn't experienced that fluctuations when I was only using Safari
I don't know then. I never really pay attention to estimated time because it can fluctuate so dramatically (on any machine). You're better off just figuring out how many hours total your machine can run on average on a full battery and judge accordingly. With Yosemite I was getting about 9 hours, which means that each 10% of my battery lasts quite an hour. This is much more reliable to me.
There must be something wrong with my battery, I've been using my computer with only Safari open and Messages app, with 50-60% brightness and the battery is at 50% after just 2 hours and 50 minutes. I don't know what to do with this, strangest thing is before I installed El Capitan beta I didn't have this problems
Process of elimination: try booting up from a clean install of 10.10.4 on a USB drive, and see if the issues persist.
