Using an iPod with multiple Macs

Hi all!
I have a 30GB iPod with color display. I've been using it with my Power Mac G4. That's where I keep all of my music and photos.
However, I just got a Pismo PowerBook, and I would like to use my iPod to play music through it while I'm at school, rather than copy my gigs of music onto the PowerBook.
I used to have the iPod set to automatically update everything, but in order to listen to music on my PowerBook, I had to set it to manually manage.
Does this mean that I have to manually sync everything, or manually copy music to the playlists on the iPod?
Thanks,
Alex

Hi Alexander,
Does this mean that I have to manually sync everything,...
If the songs/photo differ on the two computers, the primary computer, where you have your songs stored in this case your G4, you can keep automatic. However, on your PowerBook, just keep it manual.
You may also want to take a look at this article:
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Gary

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