Hi all, this is as much a tech note for when someone searches their archives as anything else ... it may elicit a 'well duuuuh' response from some on the list :) .
Skype won't run on a 233mhz Bondi iMac - well the app runs, and you can instant message - but voice cuts out. The iMac has 288meg of RAM and a 40gig Western Digital Hard Disk, running 10.3.5 (which runs okay, amazingly enough). I used the Activitiy monitor app to ah, monitor the cpu usage - when attempting to speak, the CPU idle time drops to -0.00. I was trying to get Skype working so my parents machine so they could have long talks with my brother over in the UK. If anyone knows the minimum mhz speed which allows Skype to run pls send me an e-mail, I might try and track down a 2nd hand replacement iMac for them - it'd have to be under $400 though (if anyone's thinking of selling their doorstop) as that's what it would cost to install a Sonnet 600mhz + firewire G3 upgrade card. Cheers, Tobes.
