Do I have go keep the music on iTunes once I have it on my iPhone as its slowing down my computer

Do I have go keep the music on iTunes once I have it on my iPhone as its slowing down my computer

Realistically, yes.
If you delete the music from your iTunes, you will have to use Manually Manage for your phone in the future because a Sync will attempt to remove songs that you have removed from iTunes.
More importantly, if you ever need to Restore your phone, only media in your iTunes Library will be added to your phone. So if you delete the computer's Library, you will have lost all your music. There are several discussions in this forum from people who have done this and have now lost all their music.
There is no specific reason why the iTunes Library should slow down your computer. Are you sure it isn't something else that is causing the problem?

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    Hopefully this article will assist you:
    ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
    ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈
    Please do reply with results/questions.

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