Older MacBook Pro connecting to iPhone 5.

I am trying to connect an iPhone 5 to an older MacBook Pro. It is too old to update to Mountain Lion but needs an update for a newer iTunes. What is the latest I can run on? It's currently on OS X 10.4.11.

You need to purchase and install Mac OS X 10.6 and then run Software Update. Your computer might be able to run Lion, but you'd need to upgrade to 10.6.6 or newer to buy Lion, and as the latest version of iTunes will run on 10.6.8, in this case it doesn't really matter whether or not it actually can use Lion.
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