When considering the Jawbone purchase I found a lot of people complaining that they couldn’t get it to work with their “older” mac laptops. My road warrior machine is a 17″ PowerBook G4 running 10.4.10 for those of you looking to compare.

I had no trouble getting the Jawbone to work. Start to finish – 6 minutes including finding, downloading and installing firmware update and making a test Skype call.

Here’s how I did it:

1. Update the Bluetooth firmware
2. Restart machine
3. Launch Bluetooth (I turn mine off to conserve battery while traveling)
4. Press and hold the Jawbone “Noise Shield Button” for 3 seconds… until light flashing red. (started with the headset off)
5. Add new Bluetooth device… choose Jawbone
6. Enter 0000 for the pairing code (four zeros)

Side note: I also tried pairing this device before updating the firmware. Kept getting an error that headsets were not supported on this machine. The firmware update took care of that!