Macbook Air seems to get really hot after coming after sleep

Hello,
I recently purchased a macbook air and it seems to get really hot after coming out of sleep. Even in idle the CPU temp remains at approximatley 80 degrees celsius plus. The only fix to this seems to be restarting the computer. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thank you!

Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time, then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.

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First try a SMC reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
If there is no change, install istat menus:
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