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Plenty of Mac users with a logitech as well ;-) works just fine.
by oneplane 6y ago
Plenty of Mac users with a logitech as well ;-) works just fine.
- obmelvin 6y agoIt may work fine, but its slightly absurd to need a better webcam for a recently made 2k USD laptop
- rimjongun 6y agoWhat are you talking about? My $3k Dell, and $3k Lenovo have horrible cameras.
- obmelvin 6y agoAnd that's even more absurd
- skohan 6y agoIt seems like you own a lot of expensive laptops.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoWork in IT long enough and it's not hard to use a lot of hardware:)
- whynotminot 6y agoYou realize where you're posting, right?
- rsynnott 6y agoFew if any laptops have decent cameras. This is partially because until recently most users didn't actually care that much, but also for practical reasons; modern laptops have very slim lids, so you can't really fit decent optics (a phone is a good bit deeper).
- obmelvin 6y agoThanks for pointing out the size - didn't quite think about just how much thinner lids are than phones. That is certainly a very real limiter
- geerlingguy 6y agoFor comparison, the MacBook Air has about 2-3mm of usable space in the lid for optics + sensor. The iPhone has something like 7 or 8mm. For lens design and the ability to have a very slightly larger sensor, that's a huge difference.
- joegahona 6y ago> modern laptops have very slim lids, so you can't really fit decent optics (a phone is a good bit deeper). What about the iMac?
- onepointsixC 6y agoRight, but having an integrated camera that is absolutely awful completely defeats the point of having that there in the first place. It really noticeable when you Facetime with someone on an iPhone and you compare the video quality of the two.
- mamon 6y agoWhich is riddiculous, because if they can fit good front camera in iPhone they should be able to do that in the much bigger device, like laptop, right?
- rsynnott 6y agoProbably not, at least for the laptops. The phone is a lot thicker than a laptop lid.
- laurencerowe 6y agoAn iPhone is much deeper than a laptop lid. Perhaps they'll have to redesign the lid not to taper at the edge to provide more space for a better camera.
- thesmok 6y agoOr instead, use multiple tiny crappy cameras plus software to interpolate a good picture out of them.
- oneplane 6y agoI'm sure they can, but for some reason they didn't. It's fun to speculate, but apply Hanlon's Razor and Occam's Razor; it's unlikely there is some evil corporate scheme at play, and it's highly likely that the reason is very simple. Perhaps they never got the levels of feedback that drove them to upgrade it. Perhaps it has to do with internal designs of using an USB 2.0 bus or something that now has to be changed to a CSI or MIPI style interface that first has to be processed by something like the T2 before it is a readable data stream for the standard Intel architecture. They probably won't be able to fit the exact same iPhone module, the optics (Be it plastic or glass lenses) are too deep, but you could probably do with a better sensor for sure. Some manufacturers tried to 'fix' this by putting the camera below the screen which gives it a bit more space because you can then use the hinge area for the components; but now you end up looking at someone's chin all the time. We simply don't know.
- samgranieri 6y agoyep!