Requirements to run Time Machine

I have a midrange macbook i bought in april of last year. I partitioned my external HD that i bought today. It's a seagate 250 GB and my macbook itself has a 160GB hard drive. Anyway, I was curious of how fast the processor has to be, how much ram, hard drive space, etc. it takes to run time machine, any help would be appreciative, thanks!

If your Mac supports Leopard, it supports Time Machine. How much free space you need on your Time Machine drive depends on how much data you have on your main boot drive, your usage patterns, whether you work with very large files, etc.
But based on the info you have given, I'd just turn it on and let it do its thing. Not to worry.

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