Sorry...I meant 2TB (Terabytes, not GB).
Tell me how to put 2TB of audio and video on my laptop. I think Apple assume it's all on one device presents issues.
Please respond again with your solution. Please avoid insults.
I don't have my iphone yet, so i don't know for sure this works, but here is what I did:
1) on my laptop, I installed itunes and told it NOT to copy files to the disk when adding to the library
2) using explorer, navigated to my desktop's disk where the itunes files are stored (after making it shared)
3) dragged all my files to itunes on the laptop
It added all the music to the library without copying over any files. I am assuming I can then sync that way.
As an alternative path I signed up for plaxo (free) and used it to keep my desktop and laptop contacts/calendar in sync. So now I think I have two choices:
A) use my laptop for the iphone. Problem will be if i add music to my desktop i need to manually add it to my laptop as well (if i want to sync to the iphone). Plus, syncing of music will be slow since it needs to go over the wifi network in my house.
B) use my desktop for iphone. Doesn't seem to be any problem with this solution. Outlook will always be up-to-date due to plaxo. Also keeps my gmail/google calendar in sync. Seems like a win-win solution.
In fact, I have two desktops and set up one for me and one for my wife, since it seems itunes may have difficulty syncing two iphones on one pc/account. I put plaxo on both, and told one to sync my data, and one to sync my wife's. (We never use outlook on the desktops, anyway).
-Cliff