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What a curious take. They just need to put bigger cameras in the laptop. There is like 100x more space for such things.
by davidmurdoch 4y ago
What a curious take. They just need to put bigger cameras in the laptop. There is like 100x more space for such things.
- gbanfalvi 4y agoNot depthwise.
- davidmurdoch 4y agoNeither are phones with great cameras... Which is why there are camera bumps.
- feet 4y agoA camera bump could easily be added and with a redesign of the palm rest/touch pad area there could be a recess or slight curve down to fit, you're absolutely right
- fwoty 4y agoNobody is buying a laptop with a bump at the top of the lid
- davidmurdoch 4y agoYet
- dewey 4y agoLaptop "lids" are a lot thinner than your average phone, they might be able to use a plateau like at the back of the phones to house it but I'd guess if there would be a simple solution that they could "just" do it would've happened already.
- feet 4y agoOkay? So change it? Are the gods of thin devices stopping engineers from doing something different?
- dewey 4y agoI'm not saying it's impossible, I'm saying that it's not a "just" drop-in replacement that you can do from one day to the next. Don't you think they would've done that instead of engineering some ugly phone holder solution for the new Continuity camera?
- feet 4y agoNo, I definitely don't expect apple to make rational design choices at this point Exhibit A, this thread They've been shifting design choices in a direction for years and this is what came of it. They could have made other choices but did not
- lkjdsklf 4y agoDesigning a laptop by sacrificing portability for camera quality is absolutely not rational design. No one is walking around taking photos with their macbook. It's only purpose is for the occasional video chat which, until recently, most people would use very rarely. Sacrificing portability for camera quality in a laptop would very much fall under irrational.
- davidmurdoch 4y agoApple is always searching for ways to get consumers to buy more of their hardware, so this does seem like a great way of entrenching users a little bit more. What I didn't think about in my original comment is that their new solution makes use of two of the phones cameras (face view and the keyboard view)... I'm not sure consumers would be okay with THAT much hardware real estate being taken up by the addition of a wide angle lens (which is a really cool feature, albeit a bit is a gimmick for most). Though I'm sure Apple marketing could still make it generally desirable if they wanted to.
- 4y ago
- jacquesm 4y agoLaptop screens are much thinner than phones are thick so a phone actually has more space for the camera in the dimension that is most restricted.
- davidmurdoch 4y agoPhones have camera bumps. And screens could be thicker where needed.
- masklinn 4y ago> Phones have camera bumps. And that’s pretty annoying, a computer lid bump would snag into everything. > And screens could be thicker where needed. My phone’s thrice the thickness of my laptop’s lid. This would increase the laptop’s thickness by a lot, and mostly by voids.
- davidmurdoch 4y agoThe bump would go towards the keyboard, I'd think.
- masklinn 4y agoThere's very little clearance in that direction, and the clearance which there is is necessary for the screen / lens not to touch the keyboard / case and get scratched. So if you have a bump on the inner side, you also need to have a notch in the topcase. And unless you move the webcam something weird (an edge or below the screen), you need to have that notch through or below right below trackpad, which is less than optimally comfortable before you even consider that the accumulation of crap in that notch can then damage the camera lens.
- alexb_ 4y agoIf Apple released a notch in the bottom side of their macbooks for a camera bump to fit in, everyone would be calling them visionary geniuses and they would use it to jack up the price 200 dollars more.
- Forgeties79 4y agoEhhh it’s not quite that simple. Optics and sensors have requirements that screen builds clash with. You’d need to make them thicker, for starters.