Luc Starsider

Good call. I don't use voice, so I simply forgot that. One disadvantage with Emerald for the time being. Don't know if voice works in SnowGlobe, but it seems it does, based on a quick scan of the forums.

As you've found out, you can run SL on a MacBook Pro. The viewer you use will, for the most part, depend on your personal preference. I' running both the Second Life viewer and Emerald on an iMac and on a MacBook, and both viewers run fine. I've tried SnowGlobe, and found it ran well too. As long as your Mac has a good/newer graphics card and enough memory, you should be ok. Try the different viewers, and see if one of them fits for you.