MBP 15" Late 2013 slow down to freeze

Hi,
my brandnew MBP will slow down 2 to 3 times a day. It seems there is one or more Prozesses using huge CPU-Time, but i can't open Activity Monitor or a Terminal Window. The only way out is to push the Powerbutton to off and restart my Mac. Any idea somebody?
THx Willy

UPDATE
Today it freezes after 27 min rendering a movie with 95 °C Prozessor Heat!
Google Chrome is now deleted and i will see.

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So I literally ordered the late 2013 model the day it was released (October 23nd) because I had been waiting for it forever. I got it October 25th. That SAME DAY I used it, it started having problems. While I could be scrolling on tumblr or Facebook, the keyboard and trackpad would randomly just stop responding. It wouldn't move at ALL but the computer still works fine. One time I was watching Pirates of the Caribbean and the keyboard and trackpad froze just the same without me touching anything. I had to hold the power button down for 10 secs (the only button that worked) to shut off the computer which also LOST everything I had open. This has been happening EVERY SINGLE DAY since I used it except one. I called apple support and they couldn't figure out what's wrong either because it can't be anything I installed since I've only had it for a day when it first happened and all I had was google chrome installed.
The tech guy from Apple support told me to do the force quit shortcut on the keyboard if it happened again (which it did, as always) and it obviously didn't work because the keyboard was just not responding to begin with.
This kind of stuff started happening the FIRST day I got my computer four days ago, and it's been happening almost every single day; I don't think the problem is any programs I installed. I'm thinking I got a faulty computer, which would be very unfortunate because final exams are coming up and it would be very inconvenient for me to send it back and wait for another one. I also just put decals on it and that would go to waste as well.....
I waitressed every single night of the week for a month (and counting) in order to buy this for school and I was quite excited to have gotten it...but already problems are coming up with the computer that I spent so much money on.....this is really disappointing. What should I do? The apple support people aren't fixing the problem and there's no apple store near me and it would suck to have to send it back to wait for another because I have exams right now....and also the money I spent on the decal.

Model Name:          MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:          MacBookPro11,3
Processor Name:          Intel Core i7
Processor Speed:          2.6 GHz
Number of Processors:          1
Total Number of Cores:          4
L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB
L3 Cache:          6 MB
Memory:          16 GB
Boot ROM Version:          MBP112.0138.B02
SMC Version (system):          2.19f3

[Solved]Computer slow down and freeze during data transfer syncing

Hello,
Everytime I make a data transfer, my computer slow down, and sometimes freeze during a few seconds, work for a fraction of seconds and freeze again. I don"t understand why.
As an example, here is a bench of files i transfered during a syncing with Grsync
It took about 12h to sync 64Gb.
I've read a lot of topics talking about this problem but nothing works. I tried to switch off the SWAP and setting the vm.dirty_ratio and vm.background_dirty_ratio but nothing works.
I'm making the trasfer between two Western Digital USB 2.0 external hard drive in NTFS.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks in advance
Last edited by Neldar (2015-03-04 15:54:29)

It seems it was beacause one of my external hard drive was about to die. I performed the same operation with 2 Western Digital external hard drive 1To USB3 and it works perfectly.

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