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Can a Windows iPod work on a Mac?
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My friend is coming over this weekend and he was one the big wave of new pc users buying the iPod for Windows. Now can i hook up his iPod into my Mac and not have trouble copying files? Or does the one computer one iPod security work cross platform? And what about his playlists? Will it work on iTunes? And if i sync my address book and calendars from my mac to his iPod will it work? Sorry for all the questions...just really curious.
Basically to summarize is the iPod for Windows same as the iPod for Mac? (firmware as well?)
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Originally posted by dot_nix:
My friend is coming over this weekend and he was one the big wave of new pc users buying the iPod for Windows. Now can i hook up his iPod into my Mac and not have trouble copying files? Or does the one computer one iPod security work cross platform? And what about his playlists? Will it work on iTunes? And if i sync my address book and calendars from my mac to his iPod will it work? Sorry for all the questions...just really curious.
Basically to summarize is the iPod for Windows same as the iPod for Mac? (firmware as well?)
Hardware wise they're the exact same thing. The only difference for an iPod used under windows is that the drive is formated as FAT32 instead of HFS.
As for syncing. I don't know and I'm not sure he'd like it if you screwed it up 
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Originally posted by BatmanPPC:
Hardware wise they're the exact same thing. The only difference for an iPod used under windows is that the drive is formated as FAT32 instead of HFS.
As for syncing. I don't know and I'm not sure he'd like it if you screwed it up
Thanks! Should have thought of that. But hey will it still work on my Mac?
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Originally posted by dot_nix:
Thanks! Should have thought of that. But hey will it still work on my Mac?
If you reformat it, yes.
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Originally posted by BatmanPPC:
If you reformat it, yes.
Thanks!
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I don't even think you have to reformat it to get it to work with a mac. I don't remember where I read this, but I know that I read that a PC iPod even updates automatically on a Mac. We can read FAT32 disks, but they can't read HFS+ which is why a PC iPod will work on a mac but not vice versa. HTH.
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Originally posted by torifile:
I don't even think you have to reformat it to get it to work with a mac. I don't remember where I read this, but I know that I read that a PC iPod even updates automatically on a Mac. We can read FAT32 disks, but they can't read HFS+ which is why a PC iPod will work on a mac but not vice versa. HTH.
You do have a point there. I guess the only real way to find out is to test it. Thanks anyways.
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