Switching to Mac form PC

Hello
I just made the switch from PC to Mac and am expecting my new MacBook Pro to arrive tomorrow. I have enabled my iPod as a hard drive and backed up all the files I want to transfer on it. Once I have them on my new Mac how do I reformat the iPod to a Mac iPod?
Thanks

Welcome to these disscussion boards.
There are several ways you can proceed. I'll describe one, but there are several others that would work just fine.
Assuming you mean you have files in addition to your music, you can use the iPod in it's alter ego of a hard drive and copy all those files onto the new computer. Then, rather than just copying the music over the same way, I would get a program such as Senuti which will let you copy the songs directly from the Music Player side of the iPod into iTunes, and bring along all your playlists as well.
Once you have everything transferred from the iPod to the computer, you can keep the iPod set as Windows if you like, and it won't really hurt anything, or you can run the latest version of the iPod updater and pick Restore. This will put a fresh version of the software back and should set it up from Mac. But as I said, it can run as Windows setup just fine in almost all cases.
After that, you can let it sync to the new iTunes, it will want to replace all the songs on the iPod with the songs in the iTunes library, but that's OK now because you already put all your music into iTunes. And if something does mess up, you still have the originals back on the Windows computer.
If you have any more questions about the switch, just post and I'm sure someone can help you with it.
And congratulations on the new MacBook!

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