My Mac Is Gettins Slower And Slower...

Hi guys,
I think that my mac is getting slower and slower. This is my first mac, I've got MacBook Pro for 4 months with 2.5Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo + 4GB of RAM. For example, after opening Safari I have to wait 15 second until I can change address or anything...maybe 2 months ago it was 2 seconds. I've tried delete cookies and history but nothing has changed. Then I was looking for some disk defragmentation of something similar (I've done this every month on win...) but I didn't find anything.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
OSX is quite different from Windoze -- most users don't need to defrag, ever.
Use the search box and search for "slow" or "sluggish" -- you'll find lots of similar posts and many suggestions. You'll see many different problems with various solutions.
There are many possibilities -- 3rd party apps, hardware trouble of many types, messed-up permissions, corrupted file system, etc.
A few things to start with:
How full is your disk? You should have at least 10% free, preferably 20% or more.
Have you upgraded OSX since you got your Mac? Did the trouble start after that?
Have you installed or removed any 3rd-party apps?
Have you installed or removed any peripherals?
Have you used Activity Monitor to see if a particular application or function is hogging your cpu?

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