Generating new terrain with the new generation rules is too intensive to keep up. The launcher decides to skip all ticks instead. That way world generation is ruined on many laptops.
It is caused by the new generation rules, that is too mutch to handle for an old weak CPU.
Environment
Computer: Acer Aspire 7750g - About 2 years old
Windows 7 (x64) (Sp1)
Java 1.7.0_17 (x64)
Minecraft Launcher 1.4.4
RAM: 4 GB (3,85 GB can be used)
Processor: Intel core i3 - 2.30 GHz
Graphic card: AMD Radeon HD 7670M, 1 GB VRAM
Almost forgot provements (attachment)