Hello Bill, Is that PowerBook a G4 model? If so, they may be able to make it work. The 600Mhz or faster requirement is for the G3 'Books, folks are reporting it working with any G4 'Books (and Apple's site also lists any G4)
http://www.apple.com/ichat/ These may be of some help: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/isight/iSight_reports.html http://www.eqinfo.ucsd.edu/~atul/research/videoconf/videoconf.html http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/topic/30479-1.html http://www.ispq.com/ http://www.ecamm.com/mac/iglasses/ To use iChat AV they will need either a .Mac account or use the free AIM account (I can report that iChat works quite well with either one, though I suggest you throttle the bandwidth settings back from "unlimited" to 2Mbps for some ISP connections). For Yahoo! Messenger, this might be of some help: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14474&vid=104191 But lost of folks do not like Yahoo! Messenger support for Macs ("But what Yahoo Messenger for the Mac doesn't support is Audio! So all I could do was exchange video and use the text chat.", " The recent "opener" script looks for a preference file (name begins with com.yahoo.Messenger.)created by this software in which is stored your Yahoo password in simple Base 64 encoding which can be decoded on numerous websites such as http://www.securitystats.com/tools/base64.php.";) so tread cautiously with this one. Jerry On Nov 29, 2004, at 9:53 PM, Bill Rising wrote: > Hey Folks, > > Does anyone know much about Mac to WinWhatever video chat apps? Here's > the deal: > > Step-daughter in Delaware using a 400MHz Powerbook [firewire model] > running Mac OS X 10.3.5. > Her boyfriend in Iraq, having to use Yahoo! messenger on some sort of > Windoze machine. > He doesn't care about audio - he'd rather type, because the computer > room is a common room, so others would hear everything he said. > The computers in the computer room have webcams. > > I checked out the iSights, but the requirements for using them (at > least with iChat) are that the computer be 600MHz or better. I've > poked around and found that folks had claimed that the beta version of > iChat AV (which I *think* became the new iChat) worked fine on a > 500MHz iBook. I've found no claims to have iChat work well with an > iSight on a 400MHz Powerbook. > Yes it did, you can download the new version from Apple or get it from SUPP. New version again coming out in Tiger. > Does anyone have any ideas about the best sort of webcam to get for > the old Powerbook? Ideas about the right configuration of chat > programs to use? > > Thanks for any tips, > > Bill > clueless about video > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > ----------------------------------- Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
