Iphone synch change -- from PC to Mac

I am currently synching my iphone to a PC for music and another PC for contacts/calendar, with no problems. I want to switch to a Mac for music. Assume that I have already copied my song library to the Mac. Is there anything I need to know in doing my first music synch to the Mac?
Does anyone know of any iphone issues or problems that arise when you synch to both a PC and a Mac?
Finally, I was stunned to see my daughter synch her new itouch to her macbook and synch 1500 songs in about 30-45 minutes. It takes me three hours to synch that many songs from my PC to my iphone. Have Apple computers always had that huge synch advantage over PCs, or is my experience abnormal? Thanks for your help.

palmerigenz wrote:
Finally, I was stunned to see my daughter synch her new itouch to her macbook and synch 1500 songs in about 30-45 minutes. It takes me three hours to synch that many songs from my PC to my iphone. Have Apple computers always had that huge synch advantage over PCs, or is my experience abnormal? Thanks for your help.
Do you perhaps have only USB 1.1 on your computer whereas your daughter has USB 2.0? That would make a whole lot of difference.
Still, I can't imagine it taking that long for you to synch from your PC. Do you have multiple hard drives? It could be a mapping issue. What kind of free space do you have on your hard drive and what speed is your processor?
My wife, using an old Snowball iMac with only USB 1.1, and with her iTunes library on an external (Firewire) hard drive, can still synch her iPhone, with around 1500 songs, in around 30 minutes. Bear in mind, that you do not synch your whole library each time you synch unless you are doing a restore. You synch only those items that have changed.
My wife can also synch her 80Gb Video iPod, on which she frequently has around 60Gb of music, video, and podcasts, in around 90 minutes using USB 1.1. This most frequently involves around 16Gb of constantly changing medical and astronomy podcasts.

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