LION - significant slow performance of my MacBook Air with 4 GB RAM (bought 3 month ago) hey, that can't be!!!!!

Dear community
After installing LION I was positively surprised of all the new functions (e-mail, i-cal, ....) but the speed/ performance onmy MacBook Air 4GB RAM is worse I ever had since my 80386SX PC!!!!!!!! Hey guys, that can't be (not with a hardware less then 3 month old!!!) I feel like in old PC/ Windows time. Any idea, input what's wrong?

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Load Avg: 1.99, 1.81, 1.59 CPU usage: 2.36% user, 5.21% sys, 92.41% idle
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4058 top          5.2   00:03.32 1/1 0    28   29    912K   216K   1620K
4055 bash         0.0   00:00.02 1    0    20   23    356K   216K   1112K
4052 CVMCompiler 0.0   00:00.30 1    0    30   69    7780K 220K   16M
4051 login        0.0   00:00.08 2    1    33   63    928K   216K   2184K
4049 Terminal     0.3   00:01.34 7    3    128+ 164+ 7580K+ 13M    15M+
4042 ocspd        0.0   00:00.02 1    0    26   33    420K+ 276K   1376K+
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3958 spindump_age 0.0   00:00.02 2    2    38   55    356K   220K   1100K
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3953 aosnotifyd   0.0   00:00.18 3    1    53   279   2064K 3532K 6156K
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3895 lsboxd       0.0   00:00.06 2    2    49   69    1156K 6820K 3292K
3031 cookied      0.0   00:01.36 2    1    42   82    2028K 268K   3
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