[Macpartners] headset use on a G4 powerbook

[Douglas Alan]

Kerem B Limon <k_limon at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> I very well might have, audio-wise, but I believe my general, non-audiophile
> description is correct (though I'd suspect it is Apple, too, that might be
> confused here).

I'd be surprised if Apple has their terminology backwards, though I
suppose anything is possible.  This terminology has nothing to with
audiophile vs non-audiophile -- it has to do with getting things to work
at all without either terribly low volumes or unbearable overdriving
distortion.

If the Powerbook provides only one audio input, it will almost certainly
be a line-level input, in which case you would have to plug an amplified
line-level microphone into that input.  If they provide both a
line-level input and a microphone input, you could either plug a
line-level microphone into the line-level input, or a more typical
microphone-level microphone into the microphone input.

The manual for my desktop G4 Mac has only a single line-level input, and
it specifically states that a microphone that is pluged into it must be
self-powered.

|>oug