Do I just let it manage itself???

Hi there,
I bought my iMac about 9 months ago and I am absolutely delighted with the performance. My question is to do with how I keep my lovely shiny computer happy and healthy?
I've heard that Mac's shouldn't slow down over time as they work differently to PCs (sorry, that's as technical as I can be about it... I'm a bit of a luddite). I am using Office 2008 for Mac- will that cause any problems over time and if so, do I need to do anything about it?
I'm not storing huge amounts of data on the hard drive and I don't run lots of memory hungry programs at once.
Do I just carry on as I have been or are there jobs I should be doing to keep my lovely toy working properly?
Thank you
Tricia

Congratulations on your new iMac!
I'll answer one question, Office 2008 should work well for you and no problems should be expected from it.
Basically the iMac and the Mac OS will take care of itself. Especially at this early stage there is really not much you need to be concerned with. Software update will let you know when new updates to the system or security updates become available from Apple.
Although you didn't ask, there is no need to install any antivirus or antispyware software at this point in time--they are not needed.
You should consider a backup strategy to protect your valuable data so you might want to consider a peripheral hard drive to enable you to use Time Machine that is built into the Mac OS.
Depending on how interested and curious you are, there is a huge amount of information available in these discussions and on the rest of the Apple website.
Regards,
Steve M.

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