# advice re: synching contacts in Mac, IBM Thinkpad laptop, and Sony Clie?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 27, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-re-synching-contacts-in-mac-ibm-thinkpad-laptop-and-sony-clie/184784 "2003-06-27T16:15:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![constantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@constantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constantine)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-re-synching-contacts-in-mac-ibm-thinkpad-laptop-and-sony-clie/184784/1 "2003-06-27T16:15:01Z")

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My personal computer is a Mac running OS X. My work computer is an IBM Thinkpad (laptop) running Windows 2000. I also recently received a Sony Clie as a gift. I’d like to synch up the contacts info on all three machines.

I seem to remember David Pogue saying that a Palm (e.g my Clie) is a great way to synch up info between a Mac and a PC. Can I get the Clie to synch up with the contacts in Outlook on the PC, and on the Apple address book running on the Mac?

Has anybody out there figured out a routine to streamline this process?

Thanks

Constantine

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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-re-synching-contacts-in-mac-ibm-thinkpad-laptop-and-sony-clie/184784/2 "2003-06-27T20:24:06Z")

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Haven’t done it myself, but you should be able to use Apple’s iSync to sync the Sony Clie with your Address Book and iCal info (according to Apple, the [Clie is supported](http://www.apple.com/isync/devices.html) by iSync). Then it’s just a matter of syncing the Clie with the Windows laptop.

Dunno of an easier way, sorry.

Now, if the laptop was an Apple iBook/Powerbook, and you had a .Mac account, you could use iSync and .Mac to keep them all sync’d together pretty easily.