Can I use a powerbook with a built-in mic as an external mic?

[Pants Dragon]

For my mac Pro? It would help me out a lot. Any way it could work?

 

[CanadaRAM]

For my mac Pro? It would help me out a lot. Any way it could work?

Short answer no. There is no analog pass through.

Slightly longer answer -- you might be able to rig it with a sound capture progam so you got out the headphone jack what was coming in the mic, and then run a 3.5mm to 3.5mm stereo cable over to the MacPro. But why? If it is for recording, you'd be far and away better to record directly to a file on the portable, then move the file over.

But... Why go through all of this when you can get a real external mic cheaply enough?

May help a bit if you gave us some kind of inkling of what you are trying to accomplish.

 

[Pants Dragon]

Just want to audio chat with friend. Nothing high quality. I'm just not sure where I'd find a mic compatible with Mac.

 

[fivetoadsloth]

Just want to audio chat with friend. Nothing high quality. I'm just not sure where I'd find a mic compatible with Mac.

any usb microphone works very nicely.

 

[Pants Dragon]

Really? Wonderful. I assume that that's not true for webcams though, is it?