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My girlfriend lives in Iowa and just bought a brand new Dell with Windows Vista. She has AIM Pro and I'm wondering if it is possible to video chat with her, using my new macbook and her new Dell. I've read many posts about this and there doesn't seem to be a clear answer. We haven't tried it yet because I don't want to have her buy a camera and then have it not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Same attempt here, last night.
I had not messed with iChat or with chatting in general to begin with.
My MBP/iChat >>> Windows Visa machine/AIM (NOT the Pro version I assume). Seems that we were soon enough able to IM between the two machines, but video/no audio took a while longer: and even then rather uncertain. We briefly got video between the two machines ONCE (I have no idea if we did something different though), and the rest of the time had "buddy authentification" issues. Seems that the two machines were acknowledging one another easily enough in the meantine.
i have checked around about iChat and learn somewhere that file sharing should be suspended while doing video/audio chatting.
But, in the end, what caught my attention is the following link:
http://robrohan.com/2007/11/30/trying-to-video-chat-between-mac-and-windows/
Seems explanatory enough. I have and use skype. I'll hae to have by Windows/Vista buddy install it and then we;ll try again!
Roger T

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