Running low on laptop memory. iphone backup put me over edge!!??

First off...please forgive my tech-related ignorance. Admittedly, I know very little about computer operations. Now that I have that disclaimer out of the way...here is my issue. I am running very low on memory on my laptop. I recently spent several hours deleting music and photos in an effort to create some space. I was able to free up a whole gig of space and thought that would buy me some time. Well...it did, until I connected my iphone. It took a very long time to "back up" my data. I then received a message stating that the backup to my computer couldn't be completed...presumably because I didn't have enough space to do so. All of a sudden, I have 1.8 mb of free space! Can someone help explain what is happening? Backing my files up is important, I suppose, but not if it means that I can't use my laptop. Thanks, in advance, for any thoughts, opinions, suggestions, or pearls of wisdom!

Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion's Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.

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