Can I format an iPod to work on a mac and a windows?

I have a mac and a dell and I was wondering if it is possible to do something so that I can use it on both. If so, what is that?

Format it on the Windows PC (with iPod Updater), and it will work on the Mac as well, although it is unsupported by Apple. Music transfer will also be a bit slower on the Mac, but is still pretty fast. If you want to syncronize the music between the two computers as well, it gets more tricky, because iTunes only syncronizes one way - from the computer to the iPod and not the other way around. There are solutions for this, though, but as a start, I would not use the auto-sync feature in iTunes.
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