On 3-Jun-05, at 9:35 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
On 03/06/05 09:44, "Pacer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My Fellow PowerBook-philes,
Having concluded the great "Get My Girlfriend a Pismo and Convert Her
to
Mac OS X" project, and seeing her off to Italy for her summer
study-abroad Pismo in hand, I have come up with a new PowerBook
project.
I have an iBook G4 1.2 GHz 768 RAM brand new (as of March) running
Tiger
and doing just fine.
She has a G3 Pismo 400 running Tiger with 1 gig RAM. I am thinking of
upgrading it to a G4 550. (Maybe using FastMac.)
This fall I am going to law school and we shall be living further
apart
than we do now.
On Apple's website it says iSight needs a 660mhz G4 or G3 in order to
work.
Does anyone have any experience running iSight on a PowerBook Pismo?
What about a Pismo upgraded to the 500+ Mhz G4? Should I pony up for
the PowerLogix G3 900 mhz upgrade instead, and will this enable it to
work?
Also -- ease of use is a big need for the GF. I've been doing voice
communications over the internet since back in the mid-90s for gaming
purposes, but I'd prefer not having to walk anyone else through such
audio-video craziness again, much less my GF who is less tech-savvy
than
my gaming buds.
Any ideas? Should I maybe just upgrade her machine to a new
PowerBook?
(It'll cost big, but ... well .. I guess I could sell her lovely
Pismo.
*whimper* Or maybe just get her an Mac Mini and KVM, still quite a
bit.)
The Pismo DOES at least have FireWire ....
When I was using my Pismo 500, iChat AV required a 600MHz processor for
video. Plus, iChat would not recognize my MiniDV camera. So, I got a
piece
of software called "iChatUSBCam" that made iChat works with my camera
on my
Pismo. They also say that you enable DV cameras on your G3, such as the
iSight.
See:
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20203>
-Laurent.
--
Thanks for this link Laurent. One of the beauties of this list is that
information that you don't know you even need comes across quite
regularly -- I've been thinking of getting an iSight cam for this
TiBook which has the 400 mhz processor. Looks like I'll need this.
I've been thinking of looking at upgrading the processor in this 'book
because otherwise it does everything I need it to do.
Rick
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