What must I do to sync my iphone 4 with my iBook G4?

Hello and welcome to the support community.

Your iBook would need to run or be able to run Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with iTunes version 10 installed.

I notices from your tag your running 10.4.11 Tiger currently.

The system requirements for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is:

• Processor must be any Intel, PowerPC G5 or G4 (867 MHz and faster)
• DVD drive (for installation of the operating system)
• At least 512 MB of RAM (additional RAM (1 GB) is recommended for development purposes)
• At least 9 GB of disk space available.

A retail copy of Leopard can be brought from some online vendors like Amazon or eBay.

It will be expensive.

Once you have installed 10.5 Leopard, you can then update free to 10.5.8 which will allow you to update iTunes to iTunes 10 +. This will allow you to sync with your iPhone 4.

I hope this information helps.

Hello,

It's always advisable to have a copy of the system restore disk, I personally wouldn't by a second hand Mac without the system restore disk.

If you buy a retail copy of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, then you can always use that as a restore disk should your

iBook hard drive become faulty in the future. The only difference between retails and the restore disk is the added software that come bundled with your iBook when you first purchased it new.

The added bonus of Mac OS X 10.5 is the handy featured application called 'Time Machine'. Plug in a external drive and Time Machine will create backups of your system. You can even restore from the Time Machine in the event of complete failure.

So it's up to you, if you think buying the original restore disk would be of some benefits to you.

It's also worth noting that with the retail Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard disk, you can simple just upgrade your current OS. Not loosing any applications or files you already have installed. It would be wise to create a backup before you do any upgrades to the OS, backups of personal files and applications.

Best of luck