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in this day and age how come we don't see laptops carry a physical on/off switch for the microphone and camera?
by markyc 10y ago
in this day and age how come we don't see laptops carry a physical on/off switch for the microphone and camera?
- exmuslim 10y agoMy laptop is long pass the warranty so I did it myself.
- Shanea93 10y agoThis is the day and age of removing headphone jacks to make a phone slimmer, taking away your disk drive, etc. Most companies care more about aesthetics than functionality at this point.
- ojii 10y agocan I have a laptop without a webcam/integrated mic then?
- soylentcola 10y agoHow courageous of you!
- dndln 10y agoPurism has a laptop with 2 physical switches, and it runs linux too. https://puri.sm/librem-13 https://puri.sm/librem-13
- pwg 10y agoSome older laptops did have physical on/off switches for the wifi card (this was prior to the advent of a camera in every laptop). The old Dell D820 was one such laptop. That was likely not the only one. Gradually they were dropped from newer models because the manufacturers saw no sales changes due to the presence/absence of the switches (i.e., not enough purchasers refused to buy the "new" laptop because it dropped the physical on/off switch, which is the only feedback the makers truly understand and pay attention towards). And dropping the physical switch saved the manufacturer a small amount on each laptop, which when multiplied across the numbers built was either a nice profit increase or a small price reduction (or likely a little of both).