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By all means make them better but I wouldn’t trade off screen real estate, price, or basically anything else for a better built in webcam. I simply don’t care e

• ungawatkt 4y ago
  Tbh its a really jarring camera, even when I don't care about quality. I got a work Mac (2019 Intel), coming from a relatively mid range windows work laptop, and after my first meeting I spent at least half an hour googling for software bugs before it occurred to me that a $3000 laptop could have a camera that bad. The idea that I should also have a whole separate iphone to not look like 2010, or I guess 2017ish now that it's 1080, is actually baffling to me. (I'm not really picking on your comment per say, I get your sentiment too) Edit: also, to be fair to apple, it's the only real hardware complaint I have, despite being overall negative on the OS the hardware is otherwise great, which is why it's such an unexpected dissonance
• kalleboo 4y ago
  After COVID started I was begrudgingly pulled into video conferences (before we did audio only and it was fine), so I picked up an old $3 webcam at the thrift store. They can see my face, that's all that matters. In a lot of the comparisons posted to twitter where they're saying the Apple Studio Display webcam is "terrible", I couldn't even tell the difference