Looking for a utility

I just deleted a LOT of old stuff off my iBook as I want to take it to England with me so that I can download the photos I take each day. It seems to be running very slow though. Is there a utility I can run that would make it run faster (like when I used to have a PC, I'd run defrag)?
Thanks!
Carole

HI Carole,
How much free disk space is there?
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure you always have a minimum of 10% to 15% free disk space at all times.
Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
PC vs Mac ... defrag. Not necessary on a Mac. The Mac OS X does it for you.
Read here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375?viewlocale=en_US
Maintaining Mac OS X
Carolyn
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