Can i use Ichat with windows user?

[krissvl]

Yo my artard girlfriend is resisting the almighty switch to Mac, how can i have a video/audio convo, or use the Ichat with her?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Cromulent]

Yo my artard girlfriend is resisting the almighty switch to Mac, how can i have a video/audio convo, or use the Ichat with her?
Thanks in advance.

Just get her to register an AIM / Jabber / Google Talk (via Gmail) account.

 

[markfc]

Yahoo Messenger Video works great between Windows and OS X as does Skype.

 

[krissvl]

Yahoo Messenger Video works great between Windows and OS X as does Skype.

Ok i think ill try skype but will i my Macbook cam automatically intergrate?

 

[mheidt]

Ok i think ill try skype but will i my Macbook cam automatically intergrate?

My experience was, that skype has the better picture, but a very annoying echo.
On the other hand iChat doesn't have any echo issues but reduces the picture quality when using the internet (and not the LAN)

I find an echo more annoying than some artifacts.

 

[Bunker]

My experience was, that skype has the better picture, but a very annoying echo.
On the other hand iChat doesn't have any echo issues but reduces the picture quality when using the internet (and not the LAN)

I find an echo more annoying than some artifacts.

I don't get echo with skype and gtalk (ichat), but always get it on Yahoo.

 

[markfc]

Ok i think ill try skype but will i my Macbook cam automatically intergrate?

Yep, It works great. Just enable video in either program and the iSight is automatically selected.

 

[iMacBook]

Be lucky your girlfriend can do video and such. My girlfriend has 56K.