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Can the same iPod sync with both a Mac and a Windows? Or is a Windows iPod only to be used with a Windows computer and not compatible with a Mac?
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iPod with a Mac and a Windows?
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lkalliance 
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Posted 30 March 2004 - 05:00 PM
The second-generation iPods had different hardware, I believe; you had to buy a "Windows iPod" to connect to a Windows machine, and an "Apple iPod" to sync with an Apple machine. The current generation iPod is multi-platform. The same iPod could be used to sync with either a Windows PC or a Mac.
BUT...the iPod is designed to sync with one machine at a time, anyway. If you synced with Computer 1, and then plugged your iPod into Computer 2, it would prompt you that the iPod is already designated to a different user. You could opt to switch it, designate it for Computer 2, but it would wipe your iPod clean first, and replace the music from Computer 1 with the music from Computer 2.
In fact, it works that way between different user accounts on the same machine, too.
BUT...the iPod is designed to sync with one machine at a time, anyway. If you synced with Computer 1, and then plugged your iPod into Computer 2, it would prompt you that the iPod is already designated to a different user. You could opt to switch it, designate it for Computer 2, but it would wipe your iPod clean first, and replace the music from Computer 1 with the music from Computer 2.
In fact, it works that way between different user accounts on the same machine, too.
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Posted 30 March 2004 - 06:42 PM
Yep.
1st Gen = Mac only.
2nd gen = Seperate Mac and Windows versions.
3rd gen = One iPod fits all, just download iTunes for Windows.
However I did see a downloadable crack to make an old Mac only iPod work with iTunes for Windows.
1st Gen = Mac only.
2nd gen = Seperate Mac and Windows versions.
3rd gen = One iPod fits all, just download iTunes for Windows.
However I did see a downloadable crack to make an old Mac only iPod work with iTunes for Windows.
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Posted 30 March 2004 - 09:38 PM
Provided you use iTunes your Windows-formatted iPod can also be used with your Mac, but not vice versa. It worked the same way with Gen2 iPods, one was formatted for Windows, one for Mac - they had identical hardware!
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Posted 01 April 2004 - 07:03 PM
OK, thanks!
Isn't there a "manual sync" mode, so that the iPod doesn't automatically swipe itself clean and replace its old contents with the new computer's stuff? My friend, who has a Windows computer, is interested in transfering some of his music on his iPod to my Mac. That's easy to do, right?
Thanks again.
Isn't there a "manual sync" mode, so that the iPod doesn't automatically swipe itself clean and replace its old contents with the new computer's stuff? My friend, who has a Windows computer, is interested in transfering some of his music on his iPod to my Mac. That's easy to do, right?
Thanks again.
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