Syncing to a Windows and a Mac computer

I posted this on the Connecting to Mac forum and no one answered so I'm going to try to see if someone might answer it over here.
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

I dont think Apple would allow you do that coz windows and mac use different file systems, plus syncing with different OSs means syncing with 2 different music libraries which is not an IPT native solution unless you use some other trick.

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