Lag with external display macbook pro 13" i5!

Hello everyone! I just bought a brand new 13" macbook pro i5, it works absolutely fantastic. There's only one thing i'm not happy about:  If I connect an external monitor to it (both my sharp32" via hdmi and my 19" samsung via VGA) it starts to lag!
Even on my MBP screen! Is this a lion bug? I noticed I'm not the only one who has this problem.
I've got a 4 year old HP notebook which doesn't have aproblem with both monitors and now my brand new expensive Macbook does. Ialready renamed to "AppleUpstreamUserClient.kext" and tried to run itin safe mode but with no results.
Anybody else having the same problem?
Please help me out!

Did you calibrate your monitor in Displays under System Preferences? That could be it, but I'm not sure.
The only bug I had with external monitors when I had Lion on my MBP was that kernel panics happened whenever I went into sleep mode...

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