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Does anyone use an iPhone 5c with a G4 or a G5 or am I stuck with iCloud? [message #274442] Fri, 28 November 2014 20:40 Go to next message
smac0031 is currently offline  smac0031
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I was recently given an iPhone 5c.

I know in order to use iTunes with this thing you have to have an intel
running iTunes 11 or something like that.
I got my G5 up to iTunes 7.6 and it recognizes that an iphone is connected,
but can't do anything with it and my
G4 is just dumb.

I got the iphone on my wifi and it can read my gmail. I have heard things
about the cloud that aren't good especially
when getting new computers.

This is probably a lost cause.

Mark Murphy

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Re: Does anyone use an iPhone 5c with a G4 or a G5 or am I stuck with iCloud? [message #274454 is a reply to message #274442] Sat, 29 November 2014 01:46 Go to previous message
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On Nov 28, 2014, at 7:40 PM, smac0031 <m.smurph001@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is probably a lost cause.

It is a lost cause to use a PPC Mac with newer iPhones. You don’t necessarily need to connect to a Mac because of iCloud, and the ability to upgrade iOS on the phone alone. Still, it’s probably about time to be moving to Intel based Apple software. Some Intel Macs are selling very reasonably, for example, I see Intel iMacs for less than $100, which can be upgraded in the CPU, RAM, and HD so they can run 10.8.5 Mountain Lion with some minor tweaks. You can probably build a hackintosh that will run 10.10 Yosemite for only a couple hundred dollars. I'd work in that general direction ASAP. Even the old 2006 MacPro 1,1 & 1,2 can be upgraded to run Yosemite, and these are selling very reasonably now.

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