Syncing to a Mac and a Windows computer

I am debating buying an iPod Touch and the question I have is - I have a MacBook Pro laptop that I use at home and I use a Windows XP desktop system at work. Does anybody have any problems with syncing with both computers to the same iPod Touch?
Thanks,
Chuck

If you sync to computer A then the iPod asssumes all the chosen files (e.g. selected, or all of them depending on what you choose) on computer A and they copy over so the two are in sync. If you then connect to B it erases everything on the iPod, and syncs to B, etc. This takes a while so I am not sure of what you'd want to accomplish with this idea.

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