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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1234732"><p>The Mac is self-maintaining to a limited extent. In normal use, there is very little the user needs to do -- but there are a few practical things that must be done.</p><p></p><p>1. Keep backups, and keep them current. Macs are awesome, but the hard drives inside them are exactly the same as the ones in PCs, and will fail one day.</p><p></p><p>2. OS X needs lots of temp room to work with, so make sure the hard drive has plenty of free space on it. I generally tell people that once you fall below 20GB of available free space, you're asking for trouble. Some people would rate that even higher than I do.</p><p></p><p>3. Every now and again (and I literally mean this, as in very occasionally), a run through with a third-party maintenance tool like OnyX isn't a bad idea at all. I use a similar tool called AppleJack (as well as OnyX) and tend to run it whenever a system update forces me to restart. Works as a maintenance schedule for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1234732"] The Mac is self-maintaining to a limited extent. In normal use, there is very little the user needs to do -- but there are a few practical things that must be done. 1. Keep backups, and keep them current. Macs are awesome, but the hard drives inside them are exactly the same as the ones in PCs, and will fail one day. 2. OS X needs lots of temp room to work with, so make sure the hard drive has plenty of free space on it. I generally tell people that once you fall below 20GB of available free space, you're asking for trouble. Some people would rate that even higher than I do. 3. Every now and again (and I literally mean this, as in very occasionally), a run through with a third-party maintenance tool like OnyX isn't a bad idea at all. I use a similar tool called AppleJack (as well as OnyX) and tend to run it whenever a system update forces me to restart. Works as a maintenance schedule for me. [/QUOTE]
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