Mac and PC issue

I have a Mac at home and a PC at work. When I go out on the road I have to take my PC. Would I be able to use my ipod shuffle with both formats or do I have to reset the ipod shuffle everytime I go between OS X and Windows? Is there a way to use the shuffle with both formats?

There's a whole bunch of misinformation here.
The iPod Shuffle comes formatted in FAT32, which works on both Windows and .Mac.
You don't have to do a thing to move back and forth between supported Windows versions and Mac OS X machines. In my own case (an ancient Apr '05 1 GB one) it bounces seamlessly between my new iMac running Tiger, an old eMac running Panther, and a Dell using XP.
No formatting is ever required, ever.
Those who do follow Windows prompts to format will almost always cause themselves many, many more problems than they solve.
Restoring the iPod's firmware has nothing at all to do with formatting.

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