iChat VideoConferencing, Java 1.4.1, and MPC7457

keynote 1.01 is up too

well it shouldnt be too hard to get videoconfrencing into ichat, they already have quicktime broadcaster. how cool would it be to start having an optional itty bitty camera installed in the top of your studio display or any other mac for this, ah the wonders. dont think it will be that but i think apple will wow us.

iJon

stupid motorola nobody cares about your damn chips anymore

I personally think video ocnferencing in iChat will be cool, It especially makes sense for apple to make further intergration like this since everything is already tied with the Address Book, I can jsut imagine Now Conferencing with "user", I hope theres a way to do it with non ichat ppl too tho atleast eventually.

Originally posted by howard
stupid motorola nobody cares about your damn chips anymore

Oh so true... They are just like duct tape, holding together Apple's hardware lines until the 970 arrives. Still, why don't they leave the L2 cache at 1MB instead of dropping it to 512K?

Originally posted by FelixDerKater
Oh so true... They are just like duct tape, holding together Apple's hardware lines until the 970 arrives. Still, why don't they leave the L2 cache at 1MB instead of dropping it to 512K?

The L2 cache is currently at 256K, 1 or 2 MB is the L3 cache, so 512K L2 cache is an improvement.

I may be the only one who feels this way, but I for one am glad to see Motorola getting a little more concrete about the 7457. It's not like Apple is goint to debut the 970 in all of its machines at the same time, so we'll continue to need G4s to run the "i" series. PowerPC development, be it done by Motorola or IBM, will only benefit us in the long run. Still, we'll have to wait and see if they actually produce.

Originally posted by wsteineker
I may be the only one who feels this way, but I for one am glad to see Motorola getting a little more concrete about the 7457. It's not like Apple is goint to debut the 970 in all of its machines at the same time, so we'll continue to need G4s to run the "i" series. PowerPC development, be it done by Motorola or IBM, will only benefit us in the long run. Still, we'll have to wait and see if they actually produce.

It's probably already been suggested (a thousand times), but the 7457 specs (speed, pin compatable, 2mb L3) and the delay (no 1.42 dual G4s for four more weeks -early April) suggest that the new 1.42s are using the 7457. Is that correct?

if/when apple does release the new version of iChat, will the videoconferencing abilities only be compatible with other users of iChat? is it possible that somehow it will be integrated with AIM? does AIM even support videoconferencing now?

Originally posted by nickmcghie
if/when apple does release the new version of iChat, will the videoconferencing abilities only be compatible with other users of iChat? is it possible that somehow it will be integrated with AIM? does AIM even support videoconferencing now?

The latest AIM version for OS X doesn't have any video conferencing capabilties, and neither does the Windows version, as far as I know.

--Fred