Skype or hangouts alternative - MacOS 10.5.8

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A friend of mine has a macbook but her OS is 10.5.8, skype no longer has support as you might know, so she can't log in. She also tried to use google hangouts but it doesn't work and firefox doesn't support that version of the system. So what are the alternatives she has to communicate via camera like in skype or google hangouts?

 

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A friend of mine has a macbook but her OS is 10.5.8, skype no longer has support as you might know, so she can't log in. She also tried to use google hangouts but it doesn't work and firefox doesn't support that version of the system. So what are the alternatives she has to communicate via camera like in skype or google hangouts?

 

thank you

 

A friend of mine has a macbook but her OS is 10.5.8, skype no longer has support as you might know, so she can't log in. She also tried to use google hangouts but it doesn't work and firefox doesn't support that version of the system. So what are the alternatives she has to communicate via camera like in skype or google hangouts?

 

thank you

10.5.8?  Dang - that is an OLD MacBook - that OS is Leopard (which was the last one that supported PPC).  Out of mere curiousity, what CPU is in that MacBook?

 

If she could upgrade merely to 10.6 (Snow Leopard) that would put her in Skype range - the problem there is that 10.6 is Intel-only.  (That is why I gave a ding to the iMac G5 with iSight - one of the best built-in cameras of that whole era of iMacs - supports wired AND wireless networking - and, thanks to the friendliness and security of OS X, is almost idiot-proof.  The flaw is that it's NOT x86.)

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Hang on, was there even a PPC Macbook? I thought that Macbooks started off with the Intel Core Duo chip in 2006.  It would of been an iBook/Powerbook before that.

 

Either way, should be able to run snow leopard no?

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