Defrag available for macs/does it work?

Hi,
I have been using my Macbook for 5 months - it's one of the black ones with 250gb HDD and I bought it on September 08. I now have around 85GBs of space left, so there's plenty of room available, and I don't have lots of programs either, but for some reason the boot time is really long compared to the first few weeks I have used it. Obviously it will get slower in time, but is there any way to make it boot faster? In Windows I could do disk defragmenter and it would help, is anything like that or any other way available for Macs?
Thanks!

I doubt it's due to fragmentation with so much free space left. OS X takes pretty good care of it itself. see this post for example.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8911444#8911444
it could be some bad cache files or something like that. Try running Onyx housecleaning routines.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/onyx.html

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