From: Dan K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Charles Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> helpfully opined:
To be blunt, you are absolutely dreaming if you think you will ever
get video beyond 1 frame per second on such a machine.
Chas, while your advice may be 'true', the sort-of-folks such as asked
this here OP's question may not be really helped by your regular
suggestions they toss their old hardware and buy new(er).
are you suggesting I should lie, or sugar-coat, my answers?
It appears many folks are OK with the limits of older equipement,
perhaps
because they can't or won't spend the $$$ to upgrade, or maybe they
simply don't care if they 'only' get 1 fps using iChat. Golly, 1
fps on a
233 iMac is an amazing advance over previously having 0 fps . . . ;-)
I'm just trying to be realistic here. I can certainly appreciate when
someone has an older setup that they are largely happy with, but when
they come in here asking to do something well beyond the machine's
capabilities, someone ought to be here to say "no, that's not going
to work out well for you."
The biggest part of the Apple experience, and the part that really
makes it superior to the PC experience, is that things just tend to
work. When you overreach, however, the kind of frustration and
annoyance that PC users experience every day (and are quite used to)
spills over into the Mac experience, and this feeling (which is much
rarer over here) isn't pleasant and ruins The Mac Experience.
You want to do videoconferencing? Get a modern Mac. "Modern" doesn't
mean "brand new," but it also doesn't mean "try half-assing your way
along on something that was never designed to do this and is
approaching six to ten years old," either.
There's a big difference between being able to get a few flickering
frames of distorted, postage-stamp sized video on an old machine and
doing a real iChat full-screen video conference. Leave the amateur
hour stuff to the PC users -- that's all they can hope for. Mac users
demand better.
If people on this list want sugar-coated pie-in-the-sky talk, they
can go find a salesman. I volunteer my experise here to give people
my honest, best opinion based on the information they provide. For
free. They don't like it, they don't have to buy it -- I'm not
selling anything, I'm just being realistic.
Cheers
Chas
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