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How Do I Upgrade from Mac OS X?
Master Ozzy
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I've just bought the iPhone 5 and plugged it into my MacBook (I have one of the old white MacBooks), and it says that my iPhone 5 is not compatible with my version of iTunes. I went to download the latest version of iTunes, but I can't download it as it's not compatible with my OS. I have OS X 10.5.8. How do I upgrade? I've gone onto the Apple site which shows that the latest version is OS X Mountain Lion, but the requirements needed to install this are OS X 10.6.8, so there's no point me paying for Mountain Lion if it's not going to work. What do I do? How can I upgrade?
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Sadly I can't help you with upgrade options as I'm not an Apple user.
But you would think that compatibility with all existing devices should be paramount for Apple.
http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/
you may find that your old white macbook is too old to run 10.8 Mountain Lio - what is the actual spec of it?
might be easier to find an older version of iTunes 10 (i assume your itunes is less than version 10),
Snow Leopard upgrade: http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
iTunes 10.7: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1576
IIRC all Macbooks (non-Pro/Air) are not supported in 10.8 because Apple couldn't be bothered porting the GMA X3100 graphics drivers to 64bit (and 10.8 is 64bit-only).
You can use icloud for backup, any purchased apps/music will also be backed up on the cloud, Itunes store and App store is accessable from the phone.
you still need itunes if you want to sync your music to the phone.
or use itunes match (although that probably needs the latest version to work)
I was under the impression this is the ops first Iphone so may have no music to sync and all purchases can be made via the phone anyway. Wont help if the op wants to rip CD's though.
Would that work with the iPhone 5?
iPhone 5 came out before iTunes 11 was released.
I've got Lion (ie, 10.7, not Mountain Lion) on a couple of early Intel Mac Minis (MacMini 2,1, Mid 2007) and it's fine. One of them has been juiced up with a cheap SSD, the other not, both have 2GB of RAM in them (which might be an issue on an older laptop: less than 2GB is going to be painful). The issue with Mountain Lion on older Macs is the graphics driver not being ported, not performance.
2008 Macbooks will go up to 4GB officially of RAM, 6GB unofficially, so I can't see any reason why they won't run Lion very successfully.
the problem will be trying to buy Lion though, as it's not available on the MAS now.
Indeed. Personally I'd burn an disk image from the usual sources as no serial number is required. But naturally I cannot endorse this method....
i recommend the OP stays on Snow Leopard to be honest.
Lion is is pushing it on an old machine. Although having iCloud would be handy if you have an iPhone 5 IMHO.
Apparently iTunes 10.6 had the initial support for iOS 6, but 10.7 was the earliest release that contained the support for the iPhone 5 and lightning connector.
Anyway, it may be worth upgrading the RAM while your at it. If you run the tool on the crucial website it will give you an idea of your options and how much it would cost.
Oh the shame of it :eek::p I personally wouldn't be seen dead using a PC these days. Macs are great and I don't miss Windows at all.
Oooh go run os 7.5 on an old 68030 with 1mb of ram and tell us how good the apple experience is since technically its apple gear you should still be able to enjoy a jobsian orgasm while using it
From what I recall it was an improvement over Windows 3.1, which is what a PC of that era would have been running.