iPhone is no friend to Panthers
Reader Steve takes issue with Apple’s support—or lack thereof—for its own OS on the iPhone:
I’m a Apple fan but too cheap to upgrade my iMac from 10.3.9 to 10.4. And why should I bother anyway, knowing that 10.5 is coming in October. According to Apple the iPhone only works with one flavor of OS X (10.4) but 2 flavors of of Windows (Vista and XP).Indeed, the iPhone’s tech specs page lays out the requirements as follows:
Mac system requirementsYes, that does say iTunes 7.3, which we presume will be released sometime in the next twenty-four hours or so.
Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
iTunes 7.3 or later
Now while I am running 10.4 on my MacBook (and will upgrade to 10.4.10 before tomorrow), this presents a dilemma for me as well. You see, I keep my iTunes library on my desktop, an aging PowerMac, because it has a far larger hard drive (I can only get away with calling it “aging” because it’s also hard of hearing).
So now what? I simply can’t sync the iPhone with the PowerMac (well, without going and shelling out for a copy of Tiger between now and tomorrow and upgrading my machine, which is both time-consuming and costly). This means I either have to move my music over to my MacBook (not plausible, as I’m almost out of space as it is), or be clever in some way (mount my PowerMac as an external drive and convince my MacBook’s copy of iTunes that’s my library? It might work).
I’d planned on upgrading the PowerMac to Leopard at some point, mainly to reap Time Machine’s benefit, but we don’t how syncing with multiple computers will work, if at all. I guess I may be a little short on music and video on my phone for a little while. Fortunately, I still have an iPod.
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Comments (4)
Just put your itunes library on an external drive and authorize itunes on both computers and it can be hooked to either. That is what I do so I have my entire library all the time. then you can have a backup on the powermac.
Posted by Carabeth | June 28, 2007 4:00 PM
OK, now try this. I am a Mac fan and have been for a long time. I use a Mac at home and whenever/wherever else possible.
I can't use a Mac at work. Now, I know I can sync addresses and calendar stuff with Outlook at work. Problem is that all my music is at home on the Mac. So, I would like to sync some things from work and other things from home, but iPhone will only sync with one computer.
I guess that means I have to have a certain amount of music on my work computer.
Posted by ecirwin | June 28, 2007 4:09 PM
Maybe you could boot up the PowerMac in Target Disk Mode. It might act as an external firewire drive without having to buy one.
Posted by dennis | June 28, 2007 9:37 PM
"Yes, that does say iTunes 7.3, which we presume will be released sometime in the next twenty-four hours or so."
I wonder if it's going online at something like 5:59 pm Eastern....
~C
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