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Seven maintenance tips to optimize Mac performance

Just to clarify:

"Time Machine" is the software included in later versions of Mac OS X which allows automated backups.

"Time Capsule" is the name of Apple's network-enabled hard disk backup device.

Thanks,

Ken.

Sorry about that, you're right, I meant buying a Time Capsule, for use with Time Machine. Or just using Time Machine itself (without the need for buying it).

Thanks for bringing that up.

buying an Apple Time Machine?
Who'd not want one.....
Wait a min.
When did they start making that?!!??
If you referring to Time Machine, its a feature which comes with Mac OS X 10.5 & +
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Enjoy!

Please don't leave DiskWarrior's 'rebuild Directory' off the list! I'm in IT support at the Enterprise level at a University and manage/support hundreds of Macs. This tool is a god-send.

Some good tips, but as others have mentioned, the article implies that you have to buy Time Capsule (mistakenly referred to as Time Machine) in order to use Apple's free Time Machine backup software.

Time machine will work with any external USB or Firewire drive (or an internal drive if you boot from an external). For those who don't want to mess with settings and backup schedules (or don't understand them), Time Machine is a great solution.

Repairing permissions and freeing drive space by removing unnecessary applications helped me a lot to optimize my Mac Lion. I had GBs of duplicate data in my Mac which I removed with Stellar speed up Mac.

The tips given above are really very helpful and practical.

Those are very useful points, thanks! But Id like to notice that if a common user tries to follow this rules, he will most probably harm his Macs system. That's because changing system files to speed up a Mac is a hard thing to do, as in most cases you will get nothing except more troubles. So if you are not a super geek I would recommend using a third-party utility, which will do all the things mentioned above safely, easy and with only one click. My choice is CleanMyMac by MacPaw. I think it is a good one, as I've heard of lot of positive reviews about this company, especially on their Facebook fan page . And also MacPaw creates an interesting and useful apps. Hope this info will be helpful for someone

Dont forget to update your mac on a regular basis. it's most vital for better performance
source: http://www.optimizemac.com

All described points regarding Mac performance are very genuine, keep backup, less login items, hard drive health, cleaning Mac etc. are very helpful to increase Mac performance. I would like to add some more points in this article, defrag Mac hard drive is also one of the necessary Mac maintenance activity however, new Mac file system HFS+ has the ability to reduce defragmentation of files up to 20 MB file size but It does not works properly with large files. So, It should be included here.

Really, you mentioned good points in your article. But, as a Mac user I would like to suggest a third party software Stellar Drive Defrag, which defrag your drive and thus increase its performance.