Geeky Info

The Mac Observer has an interesting report on how the new version of skype will only be supported on the new intel based Mac’s. I wonder if this is a sign of things to come. Will more and more applications start to write only for the intel based mac’s. Make sense I guess from an application developer perspective but will be a pain for those with power pc based macs.

“Internet telephony company Skype will soon release a new version of its peer-to-peer VoIP software for the Mac with video and 10-way conferencing capabilities that can only be used on Apple Macs with Intel dual core processors, The Mac Observer has learned.

Version 2.0 of Skype for Mac will take advantage of the multi-tasking capabilities of Intel dual-core processors and allow a conference call to include up to ten people at the same time, as well as offer video calls. The new features can only be used with the iMac and MacBook Pro laptops, both announced in early January as the first Mac products with Intel Core Duo processors.

“The new version will be available to Skype users sometime in the second quarter,” Tim Cox, a public relations representative for Skype with the firm Spark PR, told TMO. Mr. Cox said the new version will work with any Mac, but will auto-detect Macs with the Intel dual core processor to allow use of the added features.

Skype announced February 8th Skype 2.0 for Windows with the same new features for Intel dual-core processor-based PCs. The two companies are planning additional feature extensions and optimization of Skype for Intel’s dual-core processors including optimized video calling.”

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