iPod data transfer from PC to Mac

[OnTheFenceTim]

My wife recently purchased an iPod and she is over the moon with it.
I have transfered most of her CD collection to the iPod using my Dell laptop, but after seeing a very good deal on a new iBook at a mail order store we have now ordered her one and it should arrive sometime next week.

My question is will the iBook recognise the PC-formatted iPod and all the songs, or will I have to transfer them again?

I only ask because a friends iPod formatted using a Mac was not recognised by my Dell laptop.

Also a second question if I may, any recommendations on a good Mac book for my wife who is a relative computer newbie?

 

[.a]

... i am also interested in useing the ipod as a harddisk to transfer data (no music data) between pc and mac , besides useing the ipod as the normal musicdevice on my mac.
is it possible?
.a

 

[johnnyjibbs]

Macs will recognise any FAT-formatted drive that was formatted using Windows. However, Windows does not recognise Mac-formatted drives (CDs and DVDs, etc are fine though). Therefore in your case you will be fine, and this explains why your friend couldn't get the PC to recognise it.

 

[johnnyjibbs]

... i am also interested in useing the ipod as a harddisk to transfer data (no music data) between pc and mac , besides useing the ipod as the normal musicdevice on my mac.
is it possible?
.a

Yes, as long as you format the drive from Windows (see above post)