Q: MacBook Pro is sluggish and hangs

Hi Rune,

Could you go to System Preferences > Accounts and create a new "admin" account. Then see if the problem persists with the machine running on the new account or if it's tied to your existing account.

First article is an Apple Support article for what Zlig suggested.

Isolating an issue by using another user account

If the problem is still there, try booting into the Safe Mode.  Shut down the computer and then power it back up. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.

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