Will this hard drive work for Time Machine?

Am I stooging over here? My son (12 years old) recommends a Seagate Expansion 1TB external hard drive. On sale for $79 from NewEgg. I order it. Plug it in to my Mac Book Pro and want to use Time Machine to back up my Macbook. The Mac says I need to initialize it. I hit OK. Disk Utility opens up. I can't see an option to initialize.
I go to Seagate's website... no mention of OSX (Lion). Only Windows. Upon a closer look at the box it came in it says Windows is a requirement. No mention of OSX.
Can I initialize it. Isn't a hard drive a hard drive? Do I have to return it?
And I thought I knew what I was doing...
Thanks,
Markoman.

Thanks Linc. There is a flip down Format window. The 2 OSX options are "Journaled" and "Case Sensitive, Journaled".
What's the difference?

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Processor
Memory
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Processor Type:
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Number of Cores:
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Cache:
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Turbo Boost:
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Amount of Slots:
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RAM Type:
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Storage and Media
Graphics
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Optical Drive:
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Optical Bus:
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BLU / Coating:
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Networking
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Ethernet:
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Bluetooth:
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Infrared:
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Modem:
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USB:
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FireWire:
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Display port:
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Card Slot:
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Operating System and Software
Temperature and Cooling
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#Revisions
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blue apple > about this mac > more info button. Click on the hardware line. It has a little triangle in front of the word hardware.
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