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.and you can use the built-in mic on the Apple headset as your mic Re Audio in: I thought the Mac would adjust itself to the input? Similar to the headphone / line out / digital out adjusts to whatever it is feeding No, the mini is line-level input only.

Audio line in minijack (digital/analog) Line-level inputs 'work' with headphone/speaker outputs most of the time with no conversion. But not the other way round.

Non-powered microphones have even less voltage than line-level, which is why you need an amplifier for the microphone, unless it's specifically a 'mic input'. Think of it this way: headphone jack = loud. Line-level jack = soft. Mic jack = really soft. If the source is louder than the destination, it will usually work. (e.g.: iPod headphone jack sending to line-level in of Mac Mini.) But not the other way round.

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(e.g.: line-level out of a VCR will NOT drive headphones.) There are a few Macs with 'mic in' like the Macbook Air. That one has a single jack for both mic and headphones rather than separate jacks. Apple did that to save space and also made it compatible with the iPhone-style headsets. But the rest of the Macs are line-level in. I have a mid-2012 Mac Mini, and I tried to use it with a headset (headphones + microphone combo). The headset is not powered and has a single mini jack plug, but it also came with an adapter to split the single mini jack plug into 2 mini jack plugs.

Using the splitter, I tried plugging the 2 plugs into audio in and audio out. I tried it both ways. I could get the headphones to work, but not the microphone. But it turns out, you shouldn't use the splitter. Simply plug the single mini jack into the audio *out* port. This was counterintuitive to me, but it works! Both headphones and microphone are working now, with just a single plug.

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Folks, I've been asked about using Skype on a 1.25GHz G4 eMac running 10.4 with 1GB of RAM. This hardware appears to meet Skype's minimum requirements.

According to LowEndMac, the eMac has a built-in microphone so to my inexperienced eye it should 'only' be a matter of loading the Skype software, plugging in a USB video camera and off he goes. This seems too easy, so I thought I'd better check. I'd appreciate your comments on: 1 Will it really be this simple?