Macbook 2007, new iPod, Snow Leopard; won't connect

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Macbook 2007, new iPod, Snow Leopard; won't connect

Hello friends.

Am I basically screwed if I just got a new iPod Touch and I have a Macbook Pro form 2007 that still works JUST FINE and I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and I can't install iTunes later than 11.4?

SEEMS like it could be really simple to just buy a product and have it work. Like you spend over $200 and you get it in the mail and you just plug it in and WOW a consumer product works properly on these magical and innovative machines.

Thanks.

iPod touch, Whatever is the newest new.

Posted on Apr 7, 2016 8:58 AM

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Answer 1

lllaass

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Apr 7, 2016 9:06 AM in response to Stylez69

If your MacBook Pro is mid-late 2007 then yo can update to El Capitan. It is free. See:

http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/?cid=wwa-us-kwg-mac

Otherwise you can't sync.

Note if you upgrade some apps will not work. See:

Upgrading to 10.7 and above, don't forget Rosetta!

Also, if you have 2 GB of memory it will be slow

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Stylez69 Author

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Apr 7, 2016 9:17 AM in response to lllaass

Ok well thanks for the response. That's frustrating.

Is there a way that I can just download Mountain Lion since that's the minimum requirement I need for iTunes and this thing to work?

Thanks again.

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Apr 7, 2016 9:19 AM in response to Stylez69

You will need to purchase Mountain Lion, see http://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion

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lllaass

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Apr 7, 2016 9:21 AM in response to Stylez69

Note the Mountain Lion is no longer supported by Apple, that means Apple is not fixing known security flaws. I would go to El Capitan

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Apr 7, 2016 9:32 AM in response to Stylez69

I agree that since Mountain Lion is very old and no longer supported that you really should go with El Capitan.

I was going to add a comment to my original post but Illaass beat me to it so I decided to go this way instead.

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Stylez69 Author

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Apr 7, 2016 10:12 AM in response to Allan Eckert

And is El Capistan a free download? It looks like it.

I'd rather do a fresh install than just an update. Not sure if it's worth the risk on my 2007 Macbook just to make my iPod Touch work. I do have 4 gigs of RAM but I don't even know if that would be enough. Probably doesn't even support Logic Studio 9 which is what I use for recording. I'm already using 10.6.8 which of course was abandoned years ago... so I guess it would be the same as running Mountain Lion.

Thanks.

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Apr 7, 2016 10:12 AM in response to Stylez69

Snow leopard to el capitan, will it cause my macbook to be slow? - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7412959

Mountain Lion 10.8 purchase link U.S.A. - http://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion

Mountain Lion 10.8 purchase link U.K. - http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/D6377ZM/A/os-x-mountain-lion

Current OSX general upgrade information, including system requirements - http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/

If you have any PPC generation software that has been running under OSX 10.6 it will not be supported under any later system versions.

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