Now that Apple no longer sells the isight web camera as a stand-alone
item, what is out there for users of the olders Macs?

drt

On Feb 15, 2007, Don Tucker wrote:
> Now that Apple no longer sells the isight web camera as a stand-alone
> item, what is out there for users of the olders Macs?
>
> drt

I found a USB driver (<http://sourceforge.net/projects/webcam-osx/> that
supported a very old Creative-brand camera and an old PowerBook. I later
found an iSight just a couple of weeks ago at an Apple store. Call around to
stores and maybe they will ship it to you.

In article
<tuckerdr-BB265E.19071715022007@news.lga.highwinds-media.com>,
Don Tucker <tuckerdr@cox.net> wrote:

> Now that Apple no longer sells the isight web camera as a stand-alone
> item, what is out there for users of the olders Macs?

There are several webcams available. Just check your favorite Mac
retailer or wait until Apple releases a USB iSight, which might be
fairly soon.

In article
<tuckerdr-BB265E.19071715022007@news.lga.highwinds-media.com>,
Don Tucker <tuckerdr@cox.net> wrote:

> Now that Apple no longer sells the isight web camera as a stand-alone
> item, what is out there for users of the olders Macs?
>
> drt

There are at least two firewire cameras that seem to have the same or
similar specs. One is the iSweet by Sony, sold at Smalldog for $130, the
other is the Firei camera sold by LA computer for $99. These do not have
microphones, so they would work for either an older Mac with a built-in
mic, like the G4 iMacs or iBooks, but not with something like a
Quicksilver. I think both need a processor speed of 1 Ghz and a G4 in
order to work well. I have actually used a G3 500 ibook with my iSight
and it was clunky but worked.

J