I am going to have to finally bite the bullet and get skype because I wont be able to type for a while, and will still need to communicate with people outside of the country. I have a few questions about headsets, mircrophones, and webcams:

  1. Do most people use webcams or just voice chat?
  2. Do you find that a stand alone microphone, or a headset/microphone combo is better?

I will be hooking these up to a laptop computer so I need some sort of microphone as it doesnt have one built in, and the speakers on it are not great either, but I can get cheap external speakers instead of the headset/microphone combo, if the stand alone microphone seems like a better option.

Thanks!