"There were no Athlons or Pentium 4's boasting design considerations for the acceleration of video encoding. Nowadays we have broadband, processors more than capable of fast video encoding, 256MB of cheap DDR memory, and enormous hard drives. Does this mean we are ready to usher in video phone calls in to the mainstream? Logitech would like you to believe so, as they have two new webcam products trying to make your desktop home, the QuickCam® Pro 3000 and the QuickCam® Traveler."