iPhone 4 versus Tiger
There are actually three issues. iTunes 9.2, Mac OS X 10.5.8, and USB 2.0. Almost all of the G4 iMacs will run iTunes 9.2 (which to me seems like it should be the only requirement, but apparently I'm wrong). Most G4 iMacs will run Mac OS X 10.5.8. However, quite a few iMacs are stuck with USB 1.1.
I'm a long time Mac user and yes, fanboi. However, it's situations like this where my long term Mac loyalty is challenged. My daughter has one of these iMacs with USB 1.1. There was some snipey remarks about someone being able to afford an iPhone but not a new computer. My response is this. Life is full of choices. Right now my daughter chooses to be a student and work part time. She chooses to have a 52" LCD TV instead of a new Mac. She chooses to have an iPhone instead of a Samsung. All of these are legitimate choices given her limited budget. For some reason Apple has chosen to punish her for her decisions - not consciously - but it's still a punishment.
I think it's almost criminal that the Mac requirements are much harder to meet than the PC requirements.
I think it's almost criminal that every other smart phone on the market will let me move files back and forth in a USB mass storage mode, but iPhone will not. This would have been a solution to her problem since the only thing she wants to sync on her iPhone are her mp3s.
I personally would not own an iPhone because of Apple's walled garden business model. It's the opposite of the Mac where there are (generally) no walls.
One more thing regarding getting Mac OS X discs on eBay or Craigslist. Buyer beware. Most people are selling the non-generic versions that are targeted to a particular hardware configuration which is probably not your configuration (otherwise you would probably already have the right OS version). I know 5 people that have bought OS X from eBay, all of which claimed to be retail versions. None of them worked. None of the returns worked out. All 5 people lost their money. I'm not saying that there are no legitimate options, I'm just saying, in the words of Elmer Fudd, "Be vewy, vewy, cawefull!"
There are actually three issues. iTunes 9.2, Mac OS X 10.5.8, and USB 2.0. Almost all of the G4 iMacs will run iTunes 9.2 (which to me seems like it should be the only requirement, but apparently I'm wrong). Most G4 iMacs will run Mac OS X 10.5.8. However, quite a few iMacs are stuck with USB 1.1.
I'm a long time Mac user and yes, fanboi. However, it's situations like this where my long term Mac loyalty is challenged. My daughter has one of these iMacs with USB 1.1. There was some snipey remarks about someone being able to afford an iPhone but not a new computer. My response is this. Life is full of choices. Right now my daughter chooses to be a student and work part time. She chooses to have a 52" LCD TV instead of a new Mac. She chooses to have an iPhone instead of a Samsung. All of these are legitimate choices given her limited budget. For some reason Apple has chosen to punish her for her decisions - not consciously - but it's still a punishment.
I think it's almost criminal that the Mac requirements are much harder to meet than the PC requirements.
I think it's almost criminal that every other smart phone on the market will let me move files back and forth in a USB mass storage mode, but iPhone will not. This would have been a solution to her problem since the only thing she wants to sync on her iPhone are her mp3s.
I personally would not own an iPhone because of Apple's walled garden business model. It's the opposite of the Mac where there are (generally) no walls.
One more thing regarding getting Mac OS X discs on eBay or Craigslist. Buyer beware. Most people are selling the non-generic versions that are targeted to a particular hardware configuration which is probably not your configuration (otherwise you would probably already have the right OS version). I know 5 people that have bought OS X from eBay, all of which claimed to be retail versions. None of them worked. None of the returns worked out. All 5 people lost their money. I'm not saying that there are no legitimate options, I'm just saying, in the words of Elmer Fudd, "Be vewy, vewy, cawefull!"
