iphone - can I connect it to mac and windows?

[sincitylover]

I've just had an iphone delivered yipee - my itunes are on our old and slow mac
so I would need to connect it to there first?

But then I would like to connect to the laptop - can this be done or can i see my itunes account on the leptop?

We do have itunes installed on the laptop as ds1 has an ipod touch.

Yes you can set up your itunes account to a sharing function, so you can see your account on several ocmputers and link your iphone to any of them.

If you're going to be connecting it to two computers it would probably be worth setting it to manually sync/manage it's music. You'll have to copy the music you want onto the iPhone manually (which is very easy) but you'll avoid any knotty problems and music going missing.

That will also avoid you getting all your DS's music.

There should be a question the first time you connect your iPhone asking if you want to manually manage/sync it, say yes you do. Or say no if the question is asking you if you want to automatically manage it.

I connected it to the laptop as it the operating system on the mac wasn't new enough.

So the itunes library is stuck on the mac.

I suppose I could burn it onto cd and put onto laptop.

I can see my itunes account on the laptop but it doesn't tranfer over what I have already have bought.

"I can see my itunes account on the laptop but it doesn't tranfer over what I have already have bought."

Do you mean that your laptop can log into the iTunes store as your account but that music that you bought on your Mac doesn't appear?

If so that's how things are meant to behave, when you tell iTunes "I'm this account on the iTunes store" it won't go and download everything that you ever bought on another machine.

If you do copy the music over copy it as data and not as a burnt audio disk. Either copy it to an external USB stick or disk by dragging it out of iTunes or burn it as a data disk onto a CD-ROM.

Thanks Badger for replying I realise now that I will have to move some of my tunes in this way.

Will take a while but never mind.