PowerBoost: video conferencing on more Macs
updated 08:15 am EDT, Thu October 27, 2005
PowerBoost for iChat AV
Ecamm Network has released , a new shareware add-on for iChat AV 3 that makes multi-party conferences possible from any Mac. Apple's website says that iChat AV 3 by default requires a dual 1GHz G4 machine or any G5-based Mac to initiate a 4-person video conference and either a 1GHz G4-, dual 800GHz G4-, or G5-based Mac to participate in a multi-party video conference. PowerBoost allows users to use any G4-based Mac to both participate in and initiate multi-party video conferences. "Harness and focus the power of your G4 processor to bring your family and friends together. Invite up to 10 iChat users to an audio conference. Host a 3-way or 4-way video chat." The software features a visual display monitor of the available processing power on each Mac. PowerBoost is available as a seven-day demo. Registration is $8.
This is great!
10/27, 10:50am reply
I was waiting for someone to pull this off! I have a 1.5GHz PowerBook and I knew if my computer could handle participating, it could probably handle hosting of a 3- or 4-way video chat. Sure enough, after installing this product, it worked just fine. I already have a very fast internet connection, and now that this has removed the limitation on iChat, I can happily multivideo whenever!
iKenny
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I love Apple,
10/27, 07:12pm reply
but it's annoying when they limit certain features to try to entice you to buy a new Mac instead of just letting you use your current hardware.
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