I have an older macbook, OS X 10.5.8. Am I just going to have to face the fact that I will never get my itunes on my new iphone?

I just upgraded to the iphone 5 and I am incredibly frustrated that my Macbook can't update itunes anymore which means I can't put music, pictures, or anything on my iphone. To be honest, it'd be easier to take the phone back than to pay for a new computer. Is there anything I can do before I just give up and take it back, or am I just stuck with a 16gb iphone that can't hold any of my music unless I buy it all?

Purchase Snow Leopard and install it, then upgrade to the latest version of iTunes, and you'll be all set with your iPhone 5.
Online (US): http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Online (UK): http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Germany: http://store.apple.com/de/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Elsewhere: call the phone number in the Apple Online Store
Apple's price is $19.99, £14.00, €18.

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Don't know if ubuntu had repartition everything but you could try pressing F11 repeatley after power on button is pressed.
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How can I reset my IPAD 2 to resolve the fact that Apple will not let me use the APPLE ID and passwords that I want to use becasue they may have been used in the past year. I am very close to donating this contraption to the Good Will.

I have been an Apple User for almost two decades and have had no problems with my G4 Powerbook, my Intel MacMini, nor several other Macs as well as Windows 7 machines. However, the IPAD2 poses a problem of unfathomable disgust with the concept and implementation of the Apple ID. There is one for the computer, there is one for support, and there is one for itunes, and possibly another one for apps. There are different passwords for each. I am continually faced with notification that my Apple ID is incorrect or the password is incorrect. I have to keep an Excel spreadsheet with all of this unnecessary NANNY State protection matched only in pervasiveness by the Federal government.
I am told that an Apple ID can never be destroyed and replaced. Who dreamed that one up? I am told I cannot use a password that has been used in the past year. Why? By whose authority? I am not a walking encyclopedia that remembers every telephone number he ever dialed. Thankfully my cheap LG clamshell telephone keeps numbers and talks to Ford Sync successfully.
Bottom line is that the IPAD has become almost totally useless since I cannot change the several necessary passwords to anything I can remember because they are not novel enough. I also never seem to be able to keep the Apple IDs straight as they are too numerous to remember and I don't want to remember them anyway. Why? Even if you enventually get the ID right you have the wrong password and have to go through a merry-go-round of emails to change the password to something you have already used in the past year which is not permitted.
Has anyone out there used a competitive device with less cumberson overhead? Surely this is not the best American technology can produce.
Thanks for your comments.
Ray Zachary

Thanks to all who responded. You are all absolutely correct. However, this Ipad was a gift to my wife who was dying of cancer in the hospital and wanted some entertainment. So I started it out with her Apple ID. After she passed away I moved from Sacramento to Austin and eventually proceeded to get the Apple ID changed from my wife's to mine. Meanwhile when she was in the hospital I opened an Itunes account in my name to buy movies for her. That was the first mistake.
Then during the move to Austin I lost track of the IPAD and later found it and tried to use support but could not remember the proper ID. Later the folks at the Apple store helped me create a new and novel Apple ID that was unfortunately unlike any other.
The botom line is that I am stuck with three Apple IDs and three passwords. I am told by Apple there is nothing they can do about this as IDs cannot be changed or destroyed. I can quit using them or start a new account but when I try to do that the system keeps remembering too many things from the past and resists.
Even if I sold this Ipad and bought a new one, the system memory is still there.
I think the real problem is that destop and laptop computers are totally owned by an individual and that individual can control logins and passwords to his liking. IPADs and similar Apple products are different in that the corporation has built in their own intrusion detection schemes because of the relation to Itunes.
One thing I thought about is to open a new Itunes account pretendding to be a new customer with my regular Apple ID. Perhaps I could do the same with Apple Support.
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I am incredibly angry right now with the fact that it has taken me 6 hours to try to fix a plug-in problem that Adobe will not discuss with me over the phone when I have photos that must be done TODAY with $4000 on the line to have the job done today.

I have never been so frustrated with a company and their inability to support me as a customer.
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SSprengel,
Your post appears as a reply to mine, but none of what you write applies to me.
You are way off base and I resent it. Please forgive the inevitable tone of what follows. No offense meant, I'm just pi$$ed off, that's all.
Let's see:
ssprengel wrote:
CS6 is still sold and supported by Adobe, right? They have released ACR 8.4 for both PS-CC and PS-CS6…
That's plain bull, and it has nothing to do with the OP's predicament. No need for me to go into the limited value of ACR 8.x and higher for CS6 users. Incidentally, the miserly pay received by those poor souls in Pune, Mumbai, or wherever they are in India should allow Adobe to extend their limited, pathetic support by substantially more than a few years
I have been told in no uncertain terms by Adobe and those close to Adobe, that I'm an Adobe former client.
That is patently offensive by the standards of any prudent person. My paid purchase of Photoshop CS6, is not that old. I had been an Adobe customer for very close to 30 years.
ssprengel wrote:
……From Adobe's perspective your $4000 job should allow you to buy new software and a new computer to run it on if your older computer isn't compatible with their new software…
That is unnecessarily condescending, offensive and wrong. $4,000 a month is substantially below half of what I was making before I became permanently disabled in 2005 and had to retire. If $4,000/month is all you're making, I'm sorry for you. That doesn't remotely allow you to project that onto me in a puerile and futile attempt to define me.
However, since 2005 I have not drawn a salary of any kind. Further details are none of your business.
The fact that there are people well off to be ripped off does not justify Adobe's predatory practices in any event.
For your information, Microsoft has been very supportive of my situation regarding my older Macs and has even provided replacement floppy drives for Mac MS Word 5.a (decades old) in the last 12 months and even provided workarounds for a six-year-old Entourage 2008 this current year. I run a number of Macs, including two Mac Pros and two Mac OS 9.2 machines.
ssprengel wrote:
…We pay quite a few thousands of dollars a year to use this software …, and we pay several thousand dollars a year extra because we are not using the current version. We…are willing to pay extra to keep the old version. We rarely call them for any help but that is their policy when their customers don't keep current with things.
MY point exactly.
I'm not in any sort of "problem" myself. I'm in the process of quickly learning and enormously enjoying my Photoshop substitute, the excellent 59€ PhotoLine. I was only expressing solidarity with the OP.

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