Getting iPhone 3G to work on an older Mac...

My mate called me yesterday having upgraded his phone to an iPhone on
impulse.
He called me as he couldn't get it to work on his old iMac 500Mhz. I
realised that his problem was two fold.
1) His OS was 10.3.9 and is too old (10.4.1 is required)
Mac Tracker says this iMac can take up to 10.4.1
2) His iMac only had USB 1 (USB 2 is required)
He is probably going to get a new MacBook as he desperately needs to
upgrade but it got me wondering if it would be possible to get the
iPhone working on such an old Mac.
1) His iMac doesn't have a DVD drive so is there another way to
upgrade to OS 10.4?
2) Can you get a Firewire to USB converter and would that work?
This last point also effects my girlfriend as she has my old PowerBook
G4 867Mhz which only has USB 1.
Cheers
Alice

Actually, 10.4.10 is required, but after installing 10.4.x, software update will handle the rest getting whichever 10.4.x version to 10.4.10.
Did his iMac ship with 10.3? If not, how did he install 10.3 on this iMac?
You can't convert USB 1.1 ports to 2.0.
It will be much less trouble overall for him to go ahead and purchase a MacBook, especially if this is what he was probably going to do anyway.
It is possible to sync with USB 1.1, but doing so is not supported by Apple and is much slower. USB 2.0 is too slow IMO, but I was spoiled by syncing older iPods via firewire which is faster than USB.

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