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WHY reformat iPod for Mac?

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WHY reformat iPod for Mac?

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Hello everyone, I just made the switch from a PC to a Mac and I am very happy to now be on the Mac side of the fence. I’ve been reading these forums to find out how to transfer the contents of my 30GB iPod to iTunes on my new MacBook (I didn’t keep the songs in iTunes on my old PC, but I do have all of them on actual CDs). I can tell from these posts HOW to do this transfer (using Senuti seems easiest), but my question now is WHY do this? If I keep my iPod formatted for Windows I’ll still be able to use it on both PCs and Macs, but if I restore it to be formatted for Macs, then I can only use it on Macs. I’m thinking that as long as I have access to a PC to periodically update iTunes, I should be fine with not switching it over. Is there anything that I am missing here? I just don’t want to run into problems down the road. If anyone is using an iPod formatted for Windows, but works almost exclusively with Mac computers, I’d love to hear feedback on how it’s going. And if anyone has adv

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