Just updated from 10.6.8 to 10.9, now my 3 year old Macbook is slow.

I just downloaded the new Mavericks 10.9 OS X (after 13 hours) and now my Macbook (purchased brand new in 2010) is super slow.  I'm having delayed click-to-open responses and load time is ridculous.  iMovie is THE WORST!!  It took me 2 hours to put together a 2 minute video. 
What I've tried:
Restarting
Updating EVERYTHING
Getting rid of apps I don't use/need
Resetting the PRAM
Downloaded and ran 'Clean Memory', which did not help
Ran Activiy Monitor (Kernal Task uses the most, wich flucuates from 2.4-19.6, but everything else flucuates from 0.0-4.2)
What I don't understand is that all the research (for the last 3 hours) I've done, says that I must not have anough memory/storage.  But this is not the case, considering I have 249.2 used and 115.1 free. 
I'm at my wits end and I want this fixed.  My life is on the computer and I need it.  Please, any suggestions would be helpful.

Remove Clean Memory from your Mac. It's not necesary and may be causing part of the problem.
Anti virus software installed ??
Download this free utility to remove Clean Memory > Download AppCleaner for Mac
Your Mac optimizes RAM for you.

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