Apple Releases FaceTime Camera Driver Update for All 2015 MacBooks

[MacRumors]

Apple has released a FaceTime Camera Driver Update for all 2015 MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks that improves FaceTime camera compatibility with Windows. Apple recommends that all Boot Camp users install the software update (1.4MB) from the Apple Support website.

The software update was released for the following notebooks:

- MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

Languages supported include English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Korean, Chinese (Traditional) and Chinese (Simplified).

Article Link: Apple Releases FaceTime Camera Driver Update for All 2015 MacBooks

 

[acctman]

Parallel FTW! ... can't imagine booting into windows on a Mac.

 

[Serban]

"This will increase the quality of Macbook 12" sensor from 480p to 720p
NICE

 

[seamer]

Spoiled as a Mac user. I forget driver updates exist.

 

[droidgod]

"This will increase the quality of Macbook 12" sensor from 480p to 720p
NICE

Surely you are missing the "/s" tag right?

 

[Noble Actual]

Parallel FTW! ... can't imagine booting into windows on a Mac.

Not using the most important feature and reason of bootcamp....runs games better.

facepalm

 

[Blackstick]

Don't knock it til you've tried it. For games and "heavy" apps, boot camp is one of the best "PCs" you can buy.

 

[2457282]

Tim,

Please fix Facetime so I can call anyone, anywhere. Like Google voice, but do it better. This is the fix that we need most.

Thank you.
CM

 

[acctman]

Not using the most important feature and reason of bootcamp....runs games better.

facepalm

uhh running windows games on a Mac? why... now that's a face palm. anyone that wants to game that bad would buy a windows machine

 

[b0rg]

What about bootcamp drivers for Windows 10?

 

[BoneHead001]

"This will increase the quality of Macbook 12" sensor from 480p to 720p
NICE

How will it do that?

 

[thmshale]

uhh running windows games on a Mac? why... now that's a face palm. anyone that wants to game that bad would buy a windows machine

People who ONLY want to game would buy a Windows machine. God forbid somebody like both OS X and PC gaming

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

I'm of the thought that if a developer wants to be rewarded with my money, they should develop their software for my platform.

If your game is Windows only, you don't get my money.

The problem is if you use Boot Camp to run their games, they see that as an excuse to not support OS X.

 

[drewyboy]

Heaven forbid some of us use bootcamp for windows.

1. We don't like being extorted by Parallel's EVERY year for bugfixes
2. We actually do game a little in windows
3. We use programs that are (a) non existent on osx or (b) the osx version sucks. What programs you ask? Well, I'm an electrical engineer. That should be enough.

Say what you will, but there are big programs out there that are windows only. I hope that by the time I get to order a new laptop at work (~1.5 years to go), I'll have figured out how I can do everything properly and efficiently on OSX because I'm not sure if they allow boot camp at my work or not. It could be "if you need windows that bad/much, why not just go with a Dell like most that's cheaper?"

 

[zone23]

uhh running windows games on a Mac? why... now that's a face palm. anyone that wants to game that bad would buy a windows machine

Buy a Windows machine? I think you've gone crazy... now that's a face palm.

 

[PowerBook-G5]

"This will increase the quality of Macbook 12" sensor from 480p to 720p
NICE

I was going to post this. It seems some people can't take a joke

 

[Mrjoedot]

Tim,

Please fix Facetime so I can call anyone, anywhere. Like Google voice, but do it better. This is the fix that we need most.

Thank you.
CM

What do you mean?

 

[53kyle]

I really hope that this update wouldn't benefit older MacBooks as well. It would suck if older MacBooks such as my 2012 cMBP which has the same camera as the newer MacBooks (as far as I know), didn't get an important driver update just because they are older.

 

[BoneHead001]

I was going to post this. It seems some people can't take a joke

Oh...you got me on that one.

 

[CFreymarc]

Who hacked the camera and was steaming the compromised video?

 

[TMRJIJ]

Who hacked the camera and was steaming the compromised video?

What are you talking about?

 

[2457282]

What do you mean?

If you download google voice onto your iphone, you can call any phone (including landlines). you can receive phone calls from any phone. You get voicemail.

If you use facetime audio call, you can only call other iDevices. they need to make it so that I can call anyone not just iDevices.

If you use facetime to video call, you can only call other iDevices. Skype lets you call any computer.

Apple needs to allow facetime to reach outside the walled garden.

Hope that explains what I mean.

 

[Kajje]

FaceTime Camera Driver Update. Languages supported include English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Korean, Chinese.

So Apple what if I have a Danish machine, but I Facetime in Italian?

 

[Robert.Walter]

It doesn't affect my Mac, but hopefully native FaceTime audio calling will soon get some love from the Apple Watch.

 

[AbSoluTc]

I really hope that this update wouldn't benefit older MacBooks as well. It would suck if older MacBooks such as my 2012 cMBP which has the same camera as the newer MacBooks (as far as I know), didn't get an important driver update just because they are older.

May I ask what the hell a cMBP is?