[Ti] about isight

[Mark Gibson]

At 4:21 PM -0700 20/8/03, Ron nie wrote:
>hi. group
>anyone in this group have some experience with the
>isight? i am thinking about buying one but it is kind
>of expensive, so i want to make sure it is worth it
>before i order from apple. any of you know where to
>get it beside apple? (for cheaper price) ;) (i am not
>cheap but i am still in school so i really need to cut
>my spending cuz the tution fee are getting expensive)
>
>and also beside the isight, what would you recomment
>for me to use with my 15" ti book.
>thank you everyone.
>
>ron

Ron,

I have an iSight on my 15" Ti Book and everything is fine EXCEPT:

Don't daisy chain it off another powered FireWire 
device. Always use it alone or via a powered 
FireWire hub.

I had an externally powered FireWire hard drive 
that I daisy chained the iSIght off. When the 
camera activated - iChat crashed and the drive 
gave me the "this device wasn't put away 
properly" warning.

Trying to plug the drive back in failed (in both 
OS X and OS 9) Disk Utility and Disk warrior 
failed too. I ended up spending A$800 to get the 
data recovered.

Since that little "learning experience" and by 
following the rules of solo or via a hub (I use a 
Belkin one) it works great.

Regards,

Mark
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