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The front facing camera is also massively neglected for the MacBook Pro, which I use all the time (!) for video conferencing.
by longtermd 7y ago
The front facing camera is also massively neglected for the MacBook Pro, which I use all the time (!) for video conferencing.
- pfranz 7y agoThis frustrated me to no end. I'm pretty sure the newest MacBook Pros have the exact same camera on my previous 2011 MacBook Pro (and likely earlier). I don't care all that much about resolution...just make the image quality better and work better in low light.
- saagarjha 7y agoI believe the older MacBook Pro has an iSight camera, while the newer one has a FaceTime HD one.
- pfranz 7y agoSo it's hard to find tech-specs, but iSight was branding between 2005 and 2010. The branding changed in 2011 and forward to "FaceTime HD." At that time resolution did get bumped up to 720p, but since a camera's quality can depend on many other things like lens and sensor noise I hate to say for sure but I'm pretty sure 2011 and 2019 laptops all have the same camera. After getting a newer gen MacBook Pro and being instantly disappointed I went back to my 2011 and saw very similar performance and image quality. In 2017 they did start shipping a 1080p camera on iMac Pros, but that hasn't made it to portables. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISight#Built-in_iSight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISight#Built-in_iSight
- saagarjha 7y agoYeah, they're not great in general :(