Disk Space Left

Hi All,
Just a quick question you may be able to help me with?
I have an imac 800 G4 with 768mb Ram. It only has a 60GB hard drive. The drive has only about 1.4GB of space left. I have noticed a lack of performance over the last few weeks and was wondering if the lack of disk space would be causing the slow down.
Any ideas if this would be causing my slow down?
Thanks
Dan

Once you've followed Ian's excellent advice: the long term solution will be additional storage:
You could archive old data to CD-R/DVD-R using your optical drive very easily; just use the Finder's disk burning capabilities.
Also you could purchase an External Firewire Hard Drive. This is likely to be faster than your internal drive (5,400rpm vs 7,200rpm respectively) and can have a capacity of up to about 1.5Tb(!). Here are some examples. You can add internal drive but this is more complex and some 800Mhz iMac users report that they are limited to 128Gb (which is the addressing limit on the IDE bus on older Macs).
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Good time of day, everyone!
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