Spent three hours talking to my brother who lives 4000 Km's away in Perth last night. Sound was like nothing I had used before.
The one great thing this has above iChat is that i can speak to the Windoze users, eg the rest of my family, that live in so far away. I live in Sydney.
My wife tried ringing her sister in Germany tonight (pc to Home Phone) The sister complained of poor quality and I will have to look further into that.
Speaking of which, does anyone know if the digital Headphones from plantronics work on a Mac? All I can see on their site is that I might need another adapter.
One thing I just noticed is skype works my powerbook pretty hard causing some fan action.. a bit of work to do on it yet me thinx, but a decent start, not as good as ichat to ichat audio in my experience.
The only thing Skype has going is SkypeOut landline calls.
But if I had it my way, everyone would be using a Mac and iChat...I find that quality of iChat's audio to be pretty good and comparable to Skype's audio. I don't know how iChat 3's audio will be but it'll support 10-way audio conferences and 4-way AV conferences.
This will be a consumer app that rivals even the best professional AV software/hardware packages.
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The one great thing this has above iChat is that i can speak to the Windoze users, eg the rest of my family, that live in so far away. I live in Sydney.
My wife tried ringing her sister in Germany tonight (pc to Home Phone) The sister complained of poor quality and I will have to look further into that.
Speaking of which, does anyone know if the digital Headphones from plantronics work on a Mac? All I can see on their site is that I might need another adapter.
But if I had it my way, everyone would be using a Mac and iChat...I find that quality of iChat's audio to be pretty good and comparable to Skype's audio. I don't know how iChat 3's audio will be but it'll support 10-way audio conferences and 4-way AV conferences.
This will be a consumer app that rivals even the best professional AV software/hardware packages.