Why is my new iMac taking longer to sleep than it did initially?

My new iMac came loaded with Snow Leopard (I bought a leftover with 10.6.8) and initially when I clicked on Sleep the computer did so within 4 seconds.  Now it is taking about 5 times longer.  I checked to see if Time Machine was running but it wasn't.  Any ideas how I can get the computer to Sleep faster.  Aside from this I love my new IMac.
JDB

If you have a bunch of other users open and those users have lots of applications running in the background, there isn't going to be any computer that can keep up with that!
Why do you need multiple user accounts? Family members using this iMac, too!
Quick fix, close out / log out some user account when not in use.
Keep background running apps to a minimum for each user.
If this advice isn't acceptable to you, there is nothing more you can do with this new iMac because you can't upgrade anything. It's a sealed unit.
You could return within the 14 day return for full refund and get an 21 inch iMac with the faster 2.9 or optional 3.1 Ghz CPU OR step up to the 27 inch model with the 2.9 Ghz CPU with base 8 GBs of RAM and when you get this, install more than 16 GBs of RAM. Perhaps between 20-32 GBs worth of RAM.
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