Messenger on a Mac

[Michael Wright]

I recently decided to throw caution to the wall and buy the new iMAC DUO. I
am already starting to become frustrated with some of the simple things I am
familiar with on a windows PC. Sure the new iMAC is able to run windows but
I would rather maintain performance of my mac at its best.

Take MSN Messenger for instance. In a PC environment most messenger users
would hove experienced features like Voice and Video chat. Here's me
thinking it would be simple enough to grab the newest version and install it
but its not quite what one may think. Sure the install went fine and it
started without a hitch. Now I start exploring the usual settings and
customisation routine and find that there's stuff missing. Where are the
Voice settings and Video has gone too. IMO messenger is no more than a mini
email program without voice and video.

I started looking for a replacement for messenger and found that there is a
great little program that will do everything I need and its already on the
MAC. Ichat seems like it hast it until I find that it will only work with a
..MAC account or AOL AIM account. A .MAC account will set me back about
$130AU a year and AIM is about as secure as my cookie jar.

What I want to know is WHY. Why would they spend so much time and effort to
develop a package that works. Then strip the best parts of it for the MAC
OS. Sorry but I just don't get it. Are there any plans to re-invent the
wheel and return voice and video.

What a Joke!!

 

[John Jay Smith]

Thats the problem when you get a mac. You have a limited number of possible
applications you can run, while with a pc you have hundreds of millions of
applications available. Linux has that problem too.. although it comes with
a multitude of programs with its distro (several thousand), they still
cannot
compare with a pc. I dare to say that there are more free programs
available for the PC than free gnu programs that go with any linux
distribution.

If I was confined to a mac or linux machine I would feel terribly confined,
limited. It is me perhaps, because I want to try out new things all the
time.

Anyway if your Mac has an intel processor, then it can run windows XP as a
dual boot.
There is a program for the MAC that does allow you to do this.
Performance is not an issue.... your mac will run windows FASTER than it
runs MACOSX, sorry to tell you this, but I have read about test they did...
MacOSX on a mac was more sluggish than XP on a MAC!

-Ken

 

[Michael Wright]

Well that's it then. Installing XP right now. Thanks for the 2c