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Hi, I just bought an IMac G5 and I was appalled to find that voice chat only works if I talk to another iChat user!! I can use the "built-in" jabber client or AIM client for text chat but not voice. I walked into a local Apple store and asked a "genius" at the Genius Bar - who promptly advised me to use VoIP if I really wanted to chat with a non-mac user!! So much for Apple's support. I have found the average call-center operator in India far more knowledgable than the idiots I spoke to at the Apple Store. So when I read comments like the above, I am amazed by the ignorance and, frankly, bigotry, that loyal Mac users seem to display. This inabilty to introspect may be a big reason for the marginal market share that Apple computers enjoy. I have used Macs, PC (Yes - I have a few Dells) and Linux boxes and they each have their strengths and weaknesses. Voice chat has been around in Windows for atleast 5 years and having a mac-only iChat is unpardonable - IMHO. Now, if any of you know how to get iChat "talking" to any IM on a windows machine - I would love to hear about it.