After your initial sync...

I bought an iPad and followed the set up instructions, syncing it with my MacBook Pro in the process. It worked great; it appears that all my music and videos were successfully imported. But I have a few questions.
First, my understanding is that if I connect my iPad to my MacBook Pro again, it will automatically sync again, this time only importing any songs that I added to my iTunes library after the initial sync. Is that correct?
Can I somehow start the sync process over, adding images, for example, but NOT have to wait for it to sync my entire iTunes library again?
I connected my iPad to a netbook running Windows to see if I could copy files back and forth and was surprised when it started syncing. I aborted the process.
It looks like it was in the process of copying my music from my iPad to my netbook, which might not be so bad. Is it OK to sync between an iPad and a PC?
Thank you.

You can sync to multiple computers and here is a support article that talks about it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1202.
You can pick and choose content that you want to put on your iPad and you can prevent the iPad from automatically syncing.
Launch iTunes on the Mac and in the Preferences - under iTunes at the top left hand side - select Devices and then check the box that says - Prevent iPods, iPhones and iPads from Syncing Automatically.
Also in iTunes - when the iPad is connected to your Mac - Select the box that says - Sync only checked songs and videos - which is in the Summary Tab - and you can select the songs, movies, TV Shows, etc, that you choose to put on the device when you sync.
As you continue to add content it will take a little longer to sync each time, but essentially it does not "start all over again" when you sync if you've added new content. The iPad will backup and then sync. It's part of the whole process.
IMO - you are better off syncing to one machine at least until you really get the hang of what you are doing. It just makes life easier for me anyway.
You can sync to a PC but having a MacBook Pro ... why on earth would you want to do that?

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