Can I use my iPod with BOTH a Mac and PC???

Might be an odd question and forgive me if it is an obvious answer. I just got a 30 gigger and connnected it up and charged it with my Mac mini at home last night. I have lots of music on my iTunes on my home Mac mini and I have some music on my work Dell Laptop(with iTunes). What would be the best way to sync up my two iTunes libraries (one on my Mac, the other on the Dell lapper) to the iPod, or is it even possible to use it interchangeably with both the Mac and PC??

Yes, you can.
Read through the following article, and make sure your iPod is Windows-formatted using the iPod Updater utility on Windows.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61675

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Sorry if this was asked before, but my problem and question may be slightly different.
I have an old 20 gig ipod that I've had since 1995. I have downloaded many songs from i-tunes and from my own cd's to my pc running widows xp. There are about 1300 songs on the i-pod
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I-tunes and everything works and plays ok on the Mac. Even new songs I've ordered or put in from cd's work & play ok. But note--in the "library" section not all the tunes have the little check in the box next to them. I do not know why this is. I have no problem synching from this Mac to my i-phone.
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If you want to use your iPod with a Mac, you can just Restore it to factory settings again on your Mac to make it a mac formatted iPod. Just keep in mind that if anything is on the iPod it will be erased so make sure you have it backed up somewhere.
Another option is to use your iPod on your mac, but keep it in its Windows format if you wanted. However, the only way you can update the software and firmware is through your windows machine. Hope this helps.
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If it's a +3rd gen+ iPod (touch wheel and touch buttons in a line below display), it's getting to be about 5 years old, so it may have become faulty. The "iPod classic" discussion category is for the NEW +iPod classic+ (the 6G iPod).
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Connect the iPod to the Mac. Run Disk Utility (quit iTunes if it's running). Does the iPod show up in the sidebar? If it does not, disconnect the iPod and put it into Disk Mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1363
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Once it shows up in Disk Utility, select the iPod hard drive (not the volume intended under the drive) and go to the Erase tab. Click on the Erase button (to reformat the iPod's drive). Note: This will obviously erase your songs on the iPod, so you will need to re-sync from the iTunes library.
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