Sync iPad with new iMac

i just bought a brand new imac and i connected my ipad thinking i could easily sync my whole itunes library over. My actual itunes library is stored on my PC at work. When i connected it, it said it would erase everything on th ipad and sync from itunes library on the mac (of which there isn't one yet). I'm confused. Honestly I thought this would be a snap for such highly intelligent products.
Adam

Your iTunes library is stored locally on your computer. It is not stored by Apple/iTunes on a server somewhere so that your iTunes on a new computer recognizes that library and sync with it. You said it yourself that your iTunes library is on a PC at work.
You will have to copy that library to the new iMac and then iTunes on the Mac will recognize the iPad and sync accordingly. This kb article from Apple explains a number of ways that you can do this. Included in this article is the transfer purchases feature which you can do from the iPad to the new Mac, but it will only copy purchased content into the new iTunes library. The link is actually at the bottom of this post. The Atomic browser is giving me fits today.
Read this discussion as well.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3445538?start=0&tstart=0
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527

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