[CUBE] isight IS working

[Erik Ableson]

Yup - hooked directly to the Cube on an (flaky) Airport connection at 
my apartment with my girlfriend on a DSL line, and my commuting 
apartment is on Cable with the powerbook and we use it just about every 
night instead of the telephone.

No appreciable issues setting things up, it really truly worked in fine 
Apple fashion for me.  Plugged them in and it worked!

There is a note that the resolution could be finer if you have a faster 
CPU which would be nice, but it's certainly quite usable on the under 
800Mhz machines.  What really sold me was the integrated directional 
mic.  Since it's  USB audio only on the Cube and I have enough cables 
already without the Griffin iMic hooked up, it's a MUCH cleaner 
solution.

You just have to get used to the 0.5/1.5 second lag... but that's more 
than tolerable given that it's effectively free long distance video 
phoning.

I'm not sure about the G3 side of the house - do the Pismos have 
built-in Firewire?  I don't remember.  I think that the low end 
requirement was a machine with integrated Firewire, rather than a card.

I've even done overseas iChat AV connections that worked as well!

On 18 déc. 03, at 19:44, david sarcastix wrote:

> Erik,
>
> WOW!!
>
> Yippee, Yappee, Yahooey!!
>
> I also have a Pismo (500m mhz G3). Is the G4 what gives the iChat AV 
> the
> power to do it's thing, with lower mhz?
>
> I'll experiment now, of course, but an opinion or advice would help if 
> you
> have the time.