Ichat video hosting and new mac mini

I understand that one cannot host a 3 way video chat with a G4 machine,which I have.
Can one host the 3 way video chat with a new Intel Mac mini?
And does it matter that the other 2 participants would be using G4 machines?
Regards
J

Nobody has answered the question which was whether multi chat would work with the new Intel Mac Minis.
I have one on order so I guess I will be able to give you the definitive answer in a couple of days however I would expect that both the single and dual core Intel minis will have the horsepower to run Multi Chats.
Powerboost is a great workaround for G4 Macs and I can confirm that a G4 1Gig Powerbook is more than capable of running a 3 way multichat with this program installed.

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