MacBook 13' Late 2011 Display is Slow/Choppy

Hi fellows, how are you doing?
I've just bought a MacBook Pro 13' on last friday. It's the Late 2011 configuration with i5 processor.
Following the notebook manual instructions, I've changed the original 500GB Hard Disk to a Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB that I've already have, and also expanded the memmory to 8 GB, with two Kingston 4 GB 1333 Mhz chips. I've installed Mac OS X Lion from the Internet recovery environment, and I've also installed software and firmware updates, as recommended.
It's working fine, and the computers performance is great, besides the Display performance. I've connected a secondary monitor which is Full HD (1980x1080), and I've started to notice slow down, when switching between desktops, or even scrolling down a page. Initially I was thought that it could be because of the higher resolution and dual display, but it makes no sense! The computer states that it is using 512 MB for the graphics card, a Intel 3000.
I've searched around the web for similiar problem, and didn't found anything. This problem is very weird, because it doesn't happen all the time, there are times when the display show very fluid, and there are times it don't, it keeps switching and doing simple animation, window transition and scrolling really chuncky, like an old video card.  This is very very weird, since I previously had a MacMini from late 2007, with a Core 2 Duo processor where never had an issue even with Lion installed.
Does anybody know what the problem can be and what steps would I take in order to identify the issue?
Additional facts:
Rebotting the machine does not solve the problem
I do keep checking Activity Monitor and the problem occurs even on the best conditions (processing is under 10%, around 5GB of free memmory, no paging, no disk or network activity)
Using a single display, seems to minimize the frequency of the problem, but it still occurs (anyway, it's far from the expected, which is a decente video performance for day-to-day work)
Standard performance gain procedures, such as restore file permissions, delete caches, etc, doesn't work (either because it's a brand new computer were I've installed lion from scracth, and either because it's not a general performance problem, but a display performance problem)
This problem is really making me upset against the computer, because it's overall performance is really great, but this problem knocks me down!
Best regards,
Rafael Veronezi

Other information that I forgot to mention, the notebook is plugged to external display via VGA under a VGA/Mini DisplayPort adapter.

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  • Macbook Pro late 2011 suddenly slow after months using Yosemite. Never noticed kernel_task until this happened.

    My MacBook Pro late 2011 has recently slowed to snails pace after successfully running Yosemite from a clean install for many months.
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    Etrecheck results
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    EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
    Report generated 3 March 2015 10:30:47 am AEDT
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    Hardware Information: ℹ️
        MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011) (Technical Specifications)
        MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
        1 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
        4 GB RAM Upgradeable
            BANK 0/DIMM0
                2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
            BANK 1/DIMM0
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        Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
        Wireless:  en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
        Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 278
    Video Information: ℹ️
        Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
            Color LCD 1280 x 800
    System Software: ℹ️
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    Disk Information: ℹ️
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            EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
            Yosemite HD (disk0s2) / : 499.25 GB (290.00 GB free)
            Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB
        HL-DT-ST DVDRW  GS31N 
    USB Information: ℹ️
        Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
        Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
        Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
            Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
        Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
    Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
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    Gatekeeper: ℹ️
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    Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
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        [loaded]    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (4.3.22) [Click for support]
        [loaded]    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (4.3.22) [Click for support]
        [loaded]    org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (4.3.22) [Click for support]
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        [unknown]    com.cardosystems.cardo-updater.plist [Click for support]
        [loaded]    com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Click for support]
        [loaded]    com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool.plist [Click for support]
        [loaded]    com.oracle.java.JavaUpdateHelper.plist [Click for support]
        [loaded]    com.rogueamoeba.instanton-agent.plist [Click for support]
        [loaded]    jp.co.canon.MasterInstaller.plist [Click for support]
        [loaded]    org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist [Click for support]
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    User Launch Agents: ℹ️
        [not loaded]    org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist [Click for support]
    User Login Items: ℹ️
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    Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
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        FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
        Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
        NP_2020Player_IKEA: Version: 5.0.94.1 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
        Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
        QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
        OfficeLiveBrowserPlugin: Version: 12.3.3 [Click for support]
        SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.8 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
        Silverlight: Version: 4.0.60129.0 [Click for support]
        JavaAppletPlugin: Version: Java 7 Update 75 Check version
    User internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
        WebEx64: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
    Safari Extensions: ℹ️
        AdBlock
        DuckDuckGo
        Ghostery
    3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
        Flash Player  [Click for support]
        Flip4Mac WMV  [Click for support]
        Java  [Click for support]
    Time Machine: ℹ️
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        Mobile backups: OFF
        Auto backup: YES
        Volumes being backed up:
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        Destinations:
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            Total size: 319.73 GB
            Total number of backups: 10
            Oldest backup: 2014-10-27 14:49:11 +0000
            Last backup: 2015-02-28 00:39:26 +0000
            Size of backup disk: Too small
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    Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
             6%    WindowServer
             1%    cardo-updater
             0%    AppleSpell
             0%    loginwindow
             0%    fontd
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        155 MB    Finder
        103 MB    WindowServer
        77 MB    CalendarAgent
        77 MB    Spotlight
        73 MB    com.apple.internetaccounts
    Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
        187 MB    Free RAM
        1.55 GB    Active RAM
        1.38 GB    Inactive RAM
        1.10 GB    Wired RAM
        1.53 GB    Page-ins
        602 KB    Page-outs
    Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
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    System Version: OS X 10.10.2 (14C109)
    Kernel Version: Darwin 14.1.0
    Time since boot: 4:22
    UID: 501
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    CPU usage (%)
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    Login hook
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    Firewall: On
    System caches/logs
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        2015-02-12 Skype hang
        2015-02-12 com.apple.AmbientDisplayAgent crash
        2015-02-13 CalendarAgent crash
        2015-02-14 LegacyFileVaultMessageTracer crash
        2015-02-19 mdworker32 crash x16
        2015-02-21 LegacyFileVaultMessageTracer crash
        2015-02-26 iTunes crash
        2015-02-26 mdworker32 crash x2
        2015-02-27 mdworker32 crash x2
        2015-02-28 LegacyFileVaultMessageTracer crash
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        Mar  3 11:48:02 WindowServer: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 828055384 for window 199
        Mar  3 11:48:02 WindowServer: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 828055384 for window 199
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        Mar  3 13:51:26 WindowServer: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 861039197 for window 342
        Mar  3 13:51:26 WindowServer: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 861039197 for window 342
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        Mar  3 14:08:59 WindowServer: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 948402577 for window 33
        Mar  3 14:08:59 WindowServer: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 948402577 for window 33
        Mar  3 14:08:59 WindowServer: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 948402577 for window 33
        Mar  3 14:08:59 WindowServer: WSGetSurfaceInWindow : Invalid surface 948402577 for window 33
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        Mar  1 09:45:12 com.apple.xpc.launchd.user.502.100030.Aqua: Could not import service from caller: caller = otherbsd.709, service = com.apple.photostream-agent, error = 119: Service is disabled
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        Mar  1 09:53:20 com.apple.xpc.launchd.user.502.100006.Aqua: Could not import service from caller: caller = otherbsd.296, service = com.apple.photostream-agent, error = 119: Service is disabled
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        Mar  1 12:56:18 com.apple.xpc.launchd.user.501.100006.Aqua: Could not import service from caller: caller = otherbsd.296, service = com.apple.photostream-agent, error = 119: Service is disabled
        Mar  1 13:18:13 com.apple.xpc.launchd.user.501.100006.Aqua: Could not import service from caller: caller = otherbsd.296, service = com.apple.photostream-agent, error = 119: Service is disabled
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        com.oracle.java.Helper-Tool
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        com.apple.security.cloudkeychainproxy3
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