Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

My iPhone 3GS finally died a week or two ago, and I went out and got a new contract with a 5c. Great. But I've just tried to connect it to the laptop, to try and restore it from a backup of the 3GS, and it won't link up with iTunes - says it needs 11.1. Problem is that 11.1 won't run on my MacBook, which is probably 6 years old and running Mac OS X 10.5.8.

What are my options? The latest OS won't run on my machine, will it? And it's pricey anyway. So am I now having to buy a new laptop to get tunes onto my phone? That kinda sucks.

In all honesty, all of my contacts and pictures are fine because they backup into the cloud, but I need to connect to the laptop to get music and videos.

You need 10.6.8 to run the latest iTunes I think, which all MacBooks should be able to run, as long as it has a Core 2 Duo it should be able to run 10.7. as well. The only thing you'll have to make sure is you have enough RAM, 1GB for 10.6.8 or 2GB for 10.7