My wife and I have two separate iTunes accounts and two separate laptops. Now that we are married, when it came to the time we both needed to replace our own laptops we decided just to buy one. I would be grateful for any advice on what the best way would be to deal with our separate iTunes accounts. Can we merge them, or both have our own iTunes accounts installed on the same machine. Any advice would be much appreciated.
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Home sharing should allow you to see each other's libraries over your home network, and drag apps from your wife's onto yours and vice versa. You can definitely do this despite having two accounts - my wife and I have a similar problem. You may have to enter both passwords from time to time to authorize purchases, though.
I found some help setting this up from "Activating Home Sharing in iTunes".
I believe you can also sort hers by "items I don't have" so you can see what she might have bought of interest to you, although I'm not sure you can automatically sync them.
This SuperUser question seems to suggest that merging two accounts is not an option:
Can I merge 2 iTunes Store accounts?
You can use separate iTunes accounts, but the HomeSharing account must be the same. You will need to authorize each other's computers/devices with both iTunes accounts in order to play back content purchased under the other account.
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Best Answer
You should each have your own user account/login on the computer then you can have each use your own iTunes, iCloud, email, Facebook, Twitter, etc… accounts.
You can create an user account on your computer by going to
System Preferences > Users & Groups,
Unlock that panel if necessary (Click on the lock in the lower left corner and enter you password if the lock icon shows as locked)
Then press the "+" icon in the table above the unlocked icon to add another account to your computer.