Iphone 4 and mac osX 10.4.11

ridiculous question.
i have the iphone 3gs and am on the brink of purchasing the iphone 4.
my question: will the new iphone 4 phone sync normally with my macbook with osX 10.4.11 without a hitch?
the reason i ask is because when i purchased the ipad, it would not sync with the osX10.4.11. i had to sync my ipad on my wife's imac which had a more recent operating system. total bummer.
i've never had any other problems when i've purchased previous iphones and synced them with my macbook osx10.4.11, but i don't want to run into any surprises AFTER i purchase the iphone 4.
thanks

To add to the excellent advice you have received so far, here's how I would recommend you back up your system.
1) Buy an external hard drive about twice the size of your internal drive (Firewire if you have a Firewire port on your Macbook; USB if not), and download and run Carbon Copy Cloner to copy everything from your internal drive to the new drive.
2) Leaving the external drive attached, reboot your Mac and keep the Option key held down when the screen goes black. If the clone has worked, you'll see two startup options - the internal and external drives. Choose the external drive to test that the backed-up system works correctly.
3) Disconnect the external drive when you run the 10.6 upgrade. If the upgrade works, use it for a few days to ensure everything runs OK.
4) Connect the external drive again; use Disk Utility to erase and reformat it, and set it up as a backup drive using Time Machine (which comes with 10.5 and 10.6). You'll now have automated backups as long as the drive is connected.
Good luck!
Matt

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