If my SSD on my Air is almost full, will it slow down the computer?

If my SSD on my Air is almost full, will it slow down the computer? As in, if I have about 20GB left on my SSD, will the computer run slower?

Rule of thumb tends to be that you should set aside 10% of disk space for SSDs for the best speed. This comes from SSDs in Windows PCs, where the SSDs do perform more slowly when full rather than having some free space. This is just how SSDs work, which I won't get into the technicalities of. The SSD controllers themselves allocate set a reserve space (this could not be true in Apple's case, depending on what chips they use), but generally the more free space the better. So 64GB should set aside 6GB, 128GB should set aside 12GB, and 256GB should set aside 25-26GB.
SSDs technically will never be as fast as when you first got it. They slow down as soon as you start to write data to them, but the slowdown will be negligible. It's still faster than a HDD at the end of the day.

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    Does a full hard drive and slow machine warrent upgrading to a new one?

    I have 13 GB free out of 250GB
    That's tight. Rule of thumb for a start up drive - the one inside the Macbook - is to have atleast 15% free at all times.
    For getting rid of unnecessary stuff off the internal drive, I suggest you try Omni Disk Sweeper. It will give you a complete inventory of your drive, and purge what you ask it to delete. But be patient when it runs, give it time to do a full sweep.
    It's the second one on this page: http://www.omnigroup.com/more
    Hard drives are not that expensive. If I were you I would invest in another external drive for your library.

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