Skype for Mac OS X
Grab the latest version to get the newest features.
Make calls from your computer – free to other people on Skype, cheap to phones and mobiles across the world. And the sound quality is great, too – keep it running all day, and it’s like you’re in the same room as the person on the other end.
Standard features
If you and your friends, family or business contacts are using webcams, you can also make free video calls. You can even call landlines and mobile phones at really cheap rates.
- Make free Skype-to-Skype calls to anyone else, anywhere in the world.
- Call ordinary phones and mobiles at pretty cheap rates per minute.
- See who you are talking to with video calls.
- Send SMS messages to friends on the move and set up call forwarding so they can contact you.
- Group chat with up to 100 people or conference call with up to nine others.
- Search the web with the Google Toolbar (optional install).
- Free to download.
New in this version
Leopard compatible
- If you have the latest Mac OS X 10.5 then you can use Skype with confidence.
Better video resolution
- Your video conversations are now set at a whopping 640 x 480 pixels by default with up to 25 frames per second. If your webcam can handle this resolution you'll soon be appearing in an improved and bigger format on friends screens.
- System requirements
- Mac computer with G4 800 Mhz processor or faster.
- Mac OS X v10.3.9 Panther or later.
- For higher-resolution video a faster processor (Core 2 Duo) and a broadband connection with at least 384kbps upload speeds.
- 512 MB RAM.
- 40 MB free disk space on your hard drive.
- Microphone and speakers or headset.
- Download drivers for your webcam.
- Internet connection (broadband is best, GPRS is not supported for voice calls, and results may vary on a satellite connection).
Technical details
Version 2.7.0.330 File size 34 MB. Official release. Release date: May 14, 2008. File name: Skype_2.7.0.330.dmg
