Help switching an iPhone 4 to an iPhone 6.

What are my best options in preparing, or becoming current (ideally economically) for/with the advance in technology?
I now have an iPhone 6. I need to transfer everything from my iPhone 4. The problem: my Macbook maxed out with OS X 10.5.8 and disk space, thus only allowing a maximum iTunes version of 10.6.3.
Can my Macbook be 'gutted', then updated with current hardware/software?
Do I need to get a newer laptop?
I am more PC literate than Mac; and, I don't use my Mac so much anymore.
Any ideas?

To find out where you can go with your MacBook, it is necessary to know just which MacBook you have.  Go to the Apple left side of the menu bar, About This Mac, More Info, System Report (or the similar terminology used with your OS X version), Hardware and what does it show for Model Identifier?  It should be something like Model Identifier: MacBookx,y where the x and y are numbers.
With that it is possible to see what the highest Mac OS X version is that your MacBook can use.

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