I have upgraded my iPhone 5s (16 Mb) to OS9. My MacBook (2.4 GHz, 8 GB 1067 MHz) uses iOS 10.6.8 & the iTunes update for it requires 10.8 or higher. Now I cannot sync my iPhone with my laptop. Must I upgrade to iOS 10.8?

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I have upgraded my iPhone 5s (16 Mb) to OS9. My MacBook (2.4 GHz, 8 GB 1067 MHz) uses iOS 10.6.8 & the iTunes update for it requires 10.8 or higher. Now I cannot sync my iPhone with my laptop. Must I upgrade to iOS 10.8?

I have just upgraded my iPhone (after having been badgered to do so by popup notices) to OS9. Now I cannot sync my iPhone with my laptop: MacBook bought in January 2009 - Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Memory: 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, L2 Cache 3 MB, MacBook 5,1. The iTunes on my laptop needs to be updated (to iTunes 12.3) to work with the updated OS on my iPhone, but that needs iOS 10.8 or higher on my MacBook. I have avoided upgrading my OS on my laptop because others have experienced substantial slower operation with the newer OS. Must I now upgrade, or is there another way around this problem? If I must upgrade, should I do it stepwise or should I just take the plunge and do the whole thing at once?i

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mem: 8 GB

Posted on Oct 8, 2015 3:16 PM

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Niel

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Oct 8, 2015 3:18 PM in response to vicbw

You must upgrade, and should do so directly. Going to an intermediate version costs money and increases the chance of encountering trouble.

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SeaPapp

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Oct 8, 2015 5:49 PM in response to vicbw

With 8GB of ram your macbook should run fine on any of the latest versions of OS X. Most of the problems you've read about were likely from users wih 4GB of ram or less. One thing to note though, some of your older apps won't run in anything newer than 10.6.8 so you may need to do some upgrading but it's worth it IMHO.

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Answer 3

Oct 9, 2015 5:39 AM in response to vicbw

Some people counter the effect of more newer version OS overhead by installing a SSD instead of the traditional hard disk drive, particularly if you have the 5400 rpm stock drive. The main problem is affordable SSDs are likely to be no larger than the drive you have already. There's variants on this such as having both a SSD and HDD and remove the optical drive to an external enclosure, or use a fusion drive.

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