Will my Mac become too old to run an iPhone in 18 months?

Hi
I have an iMac G4, which at 700 MHz is too slow to automatically upgrade to Leopard and is currently running 10.4.11.
Can I be confident that if I buy an iPhone on an 18 month contract I will still be able to use it with my Mac for some time into the future - at least for the next 18 months! The assistant at my local apple store could not reassure me and said there would be no refund on my contract if Apple upgraded iTunes beyond what 10.4.11 could support.
Thanks for any comments
Fif

You have gotten good info from others, but there is another way to look at it:
If you are willing to risk =potentially= having to forego iTunes and/or firmware updates in the future, then you can virtually guarantee that your existing setup will continue to work with your iPhone (assuming it works now).
You can also find lots of info about running Leopard on older Macs here:
http://www.lowendmac.com/index.shtml
-dan

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