MacBook Pro and videochat; where's the mike built in?

[kmosterd]

I currently have a PowerBook G4 and thinking of buying a MacBook Pro. However, with my PowerBook the microphone is built in behind the speaker area... So anyone Skyping with me will always hear him/herself!!. Who ever invented this??? Does anyone know if this technical designerror is solved in the MacBook Pro?

 

[Scarlet Fever]

i think what happens is one of the speakers (the one which is a mic) works only as a mic, while the other works only as a speaker.

 

[robbieduncan]

It's on the tech specs page under Audio:

"Internal omnidirectional microphone (located under left speaker grille)"

 

[WildPalms]

The MacBook Pro microphone is located underneath the left speaker.
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html

 

[Fuchal]

I currently have a PowerBook G4 and thinking of buying a MacBook Pro. However, with my PowerBook the microphone is built in behind the speaker area... So anyone Skyping with me will always hear him/herself!!. Who ever invented this??? Does anyone know if this technical designerror is solved in the MacBook Pro?

The software is supposed to cancel that out so they can't hear themselves back.

 

[4np]

I hope for Mike that he is not built in

 

[the rock]

iChat is clever enough to turn off left channel when conferencing, don't think Skype does that. What you could do is simply go into Sound prefs and move the channel chooser to only right channel.

 

[Love]

If you wanted a Mike in your computer, you should buy one of these MIKES and hack it in there.