That makes sense to me. Apple would be the one to make Macintosh able to read Windows file systems. But Microsoft doesn't give a flip about the Macintosh file system.

This I know because I am a system administrator for an advertising agency. We have a bunch of Macs and a bunch of Dells. They don't play nice with eachother (:

 

I have a G4 Powerbook and a P4 IBM thinkpad.

One I love.

The other is a work appliance that even with XP Pro needs daily rebooting.

It's a huge improvement over NT though!

 

There is no such thing as a Windows iPod or a Mac iPod, you install iTunes and it formats the iPod to HFS+ if you have a Mac or FAT32 if you are running Windows.

 

You can use the same iPod on either Windows or MacOS, but you can't do so without first "converting" the iPod. I believe Apple has released a utility for doing so. Of course, you lose all the tracks on the iPod in the process.

 

Well they sell them as such and are probably pre-formatted.

 

No they don't anymore.
They used to when Windows came with MusicMatch but with iTunes it doesn't matter.

Oh and the iPod is only a replication of music in your iTunes library so it can't hold music of multiple machines.

Well not offically anyhow..

 

Apple does not sell separate iPods for macs and for windows and haven't for almost a year. They're all the same now. The software that comes with the iPod formats the drive appropriately based on which type of computer you have.

 

I had heard somewhere that there is a class action suit again Apple iPod because the battery life is non-existant.

 

Battery life is fine. After 2 years you may see a degrading of 1-2 hrs MAYBE in the battery but that's typical for a rechargeable li-ion battery.
That's no different than anything else out there.

 

i'm going to rip all of my CD's, so I should use AAC??