On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 16:31, Nancy McIntyre wrote: > 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, <<
You may have more luck with other VoIP technologies, rather than Skype, as if I recall correctly Skype encrypts all its data. That makes for a significant CPU overhead, and given that the voice data also needs to be encoded into a lossy format like one of the GSM codecs, the CPU requirements may be excessive. Try a basic SIP VoIP phone program if you can ... I suspect you'll have a lot more success that way. Anybody have suggestions on good SIP phone apps for OS/X? -- Craig Ringer
