[X4U] iChat first impressions

[Michael Elliott]

Jim,
The experience varies greatly on your 'net connection, so you might 
have a better chance at another time.  Buddy list me if you want to try 
another connection sometime.  I've convinced my brother in law in the 
Netherlands to get a used iBook and iSight for just this purpose, and 
it has worked well, although I understand the moving target a child 
makes for the camera.  (During my 2 1/2 year old daughter's 
"conversations" all she does is stare at herself and wave :-)

Michael
  mikee60369  on AIM for iChat


On Oct 04, 2004, at 7:46 PM, Jim Freeman wrote:

> I had my first real iChat session today: my parents on one end in 
> California and me with my kids in Montreal. Set up was great. We both 
> plugged in and it just worked. I had previously set up an iChat 
> account for my father so that helped. Of course it took him a long 
> time to figure out that he needed to press the "accept" button. But 
> then we were up and running. For our purposes it was a little awkward. 
> The kids (2 and 4 yrs)  wanted to put their faces right in the 
> computer, which means they can't be seen. And it's hard to carry on a 
> real conversation over built-in speakers/microphone (new 12" G4 
> powerbook on my end). Next time we'll try a plug-in 
> headphones/microphone. The other challenge with kids is that they are 
> constantly in motion and apparently fast movement doesn't transmit 
> very well. iChat seems to be great for talking heads but less great 
> for hyper kids. My parents complained that they got a lot of colored 
> squares on the screen.
>
> Jim