8-second wait for Finder window on new Mini!

Having bought a new Mac Mini (2.6GHz Intel Core i5 and 8GB RAM) last week, I have made a quantum leap from Os 10.5.8 on a 7-year-old iMac to Yosemite and I'm rather shocked by how much slower the Yosemite Finder is.
The most extreme example so far is alt-clicking on the Dock and selecting Dock Preferences from the contextual menu.
The preferences window takes EIGHT seconds to display when first called. Okay, it's much snappier if I repeat the command within a few minutes (which I don't get much benefit from as it's an occasional call) but if I restart or relaunch the Finder, I'm back to eight seconds again.
This is virtually out-of-the-box performance. Is it NORMAL?
Thanks for any help.

I'm doing similar things on a PC, 800MB/sec RAID (internal) buffering set to 768, 8-core 4GHz cpu, 32GB ram, but I'm having video playback issues...since the lasted update to the 2014 CC version last month. My guess is you would experience no difference if in System Prefs you changed your SOUND device to the Internal. I'm wondering if the BMD 4k card might be issue....
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Author : Bill Hernandez
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on script_title()
   Filename : finderwindowprops.scpt (Script Debugger)
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end script_title
-- ---------+---------+---------+---------+---------
on script_notes()
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