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Windows iPods? Mac iPods?? Help me!
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err... ok can someone explain the whole Windows iPod/Mac iPod thing?! I really don't understand it... and what kind of iPod would I get if I wanted it to work *just fine* on my Mac and my dad's PC? HELP ME!!
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There's no longer any difference. Back when the iPod was first unveiled, it was Mac only. Later on they introduced a version for Windows. For the past few revisions, any iPod has been capable of being formatted and used on a Mac or a PC.
You will have to decide which computer you want to use the iPod with though. The iPod is designed to synch up with the music library on a specific computer. If you tried attaching it to both your Mac and your dad's PC, it would synch the iPod each time with each computer's library, overwriting the other one.
There are some ways around this (i.e. some third party apps that let you manage it manually), but it kind of defeats the purpose of having an iPod specifically.
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hey elektrix, what are the third party apps that you speak of? these would come in handy for me. i thought that you could only update it (even manually) through either the mac or pc it was formatted on. i didn't think there was any cross platform compatibility at all...
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You can update it on other computers without third-party software, but like he said, you can't sync with more than one computer or you lose your music each time.
And yes, it's totally cross-platform. I've connected several PC-using friends' iPods to my Mac.
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i guess what i was wondering about is connecting mac-formatted iPods to PCs. that's where things get fishy.
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Yeah, that's the question to ask. Macs can use PC formatted iPods, but PCs cannot use Mac formatted iPods, AFAIK. Things may have changed, however.
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Big Mac has it right. There's a difference in the way the two interfaces work (based on the disk's format as I understand it) so that you can use a Windows-formatted iPod on either, but a Mac-formatted iPod ONLY on a Mac. You can charge any iPod on either platform, by the way.
There's one more important difference. While you can update the songs on a Windows-formatted iPod from either a Mac or a Windows machine, you can ONLY update the Windows-formatted iPod's firmware on a Windows computer. And you can ONLY update a Mac-formatted iPod's firmware on a Mac.
There are a lot of third-party apps that let you do things with your iPod that Apple didn't envision-or really want. EphPod for the PC is one of them.
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