Can you Sync with both Mac and PC ?

My wife would like an ipod touch to use pretty much as I do mine, for her music collection and calendar ad contacts sync (as well as other more interesting, but less important stuff).
The difference is, whilst we have a mac at home that she would want to sync music from, she wants to use calendars and contact info from Outlook on her PC at work.
I was told by one 'network specialist' at a store that it couldn't be done because it would only sync through iTunes and she'd have to have an account on each machine she used. every time it synced calendars from work it would remove the music and vice versa. Is this true ?
Does anyone know if this can be done? or should she pretty much forget owning an ipod touch ?
Or are there any other solutions we could look at..?
Any info gratefully recieved
andyt

I've done it, I've done it !
All the feedback sounded so promising, I went ahead and got an ipod touch for my wife and it's all worked out great. She took it to work and set it up there (PC formatted) to sync contacts and calendars, then at home tonight I've added bit by bit. Songs worked, then I managed to put some photos on... apps was the tricky one to get my head around, as we have different profiles on the iMac, but wanted to share apps without paying or them twice - We shared music by moving our itunes library to a shared location, works a treat as we can keep them different. Eventually I worked out I could log in to my itunes store account in her profile and download the apps again straight into her library. Brilliant!
and I think that's the lot!
the only thing that could go wrong now is if it all disappears when she takes her ipod touch back to work after the holidays (ach, I'm sure we're fine)... fingers crossed.
Thanks everyone for giving me the confidence to go for it. Needed to be sure before I spent all that money.
jscjsc, sorry to hear about your probs, but it's worked for me. Sorry I can't help you as I no nothing of the PC side of things, so couldn't say why your calendar diasppeared - except to say that when I went to tick the sync music box at home, it threatened to wipe everything on the ipod and replace it. I took that to maybe mean calendars too, so I let it alone and my wife will manually manage music and movies, very simple, drag and drop. Apps and Photos seem to sync ok though.
Hope you get sorted.
andyt

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