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As long there's no faceID on a MacBook, I can't find any reason to upgrade my Intel MacBook
I love my Tobii eye tracker on my PC. Combined with Windows Hello it’s the best accessory. I still prefer the fingerprint reader on my MBP but it lacks a lot of features of cameras.
 
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The reason for not having this sooner is due to thinness of the screen. If this is true, either they found a way to solve this, or the lid is thicker (possibly due to rumored MiniLED display like the one found on new 12.9” iPad Pros)
We have protruding cameras in the Iphone and they still sells like hot cakes. Until recently, we had iMacs with 720p cameras with plenty of room for larger sensors. It is not only about thiness of the display, there are other factors as well including costs, necessity, etc. Up until the pandemic, video conferencing was not that used in general, including in big enterpises.
 
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This company is something else. Millions and millions of dollars will come pouring in just because people don't want to look like a Minecraft character while on FaceTime. Of course...people will defend Apple for withholding this upgrade after decades of other laptop makers providing it.
 
This company is something else. Millions and millions of dollars will come pouring in just because people don't want to look like a Minecraft character while on FaceTime. Of course...people will defend Apple for withholding this upgrade after decades of other laptop makers providing it.
What other laptop maker provide 1080p on computers with a form factor like the 13MBA/P?
HP Spectre, Dell XPS don’t offer 1080p.
 
I would be curious to know if it will be possible to replace a 2019 Macbook pro's 16" 720p camera monitor with a 2021 1080p camera monitor.
 
No matter what the new MacBook Pro 16 inch includes, it’s going to be a let down. I find it highly unlikely that every feature that every article mentions that it’s going to include is actually going to be there.

I’ll be thrilled if it includes everything! I’m just trying to not get my hopes up too high.
I would not be surprised that amongst everyones hopes Apple will release one more intel 16" Macbook pro with the new ports, new camera, and probably a new amd 6000 series graphics card.
 
I often read people attributing thinness of the MacBook (or any laptop for that matter) for having 720p webcam and not 1080p or higher, but does the higher resolution webcam (at least 1080p) make it thicker or is it possible to have a 1080p webcam with the same thickness but wider? so it would fit in a screen having the same thickness but would take up more space horizontally along the width which is okay.
Indeed, I expect that a more plausible way to achieve better picture quality is a horizontally larger sensor, or possibly an array of adjacent sensors.

But it seems neither exists at volume.
 
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The 720p FaceTime HD camera camera on my 2013 Macbook Air is fantastic as compared the cameras from 2018 on. They went backwards in quality for the sake a thin bezel. I don’t care about 720vs1080. I won’t buy another Macbook until the quality of the camera in regular light improves.
 
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We have protruding cameras in the Iphone and they still sells like hot cakes. Until recently, we had iMacs with 720p cameras with plenty of room for larger sensors. It is not only about thiness of the display, there are other factors as well including costs, necessity, etc. Up until the pandemic, video conferencing was not that used in general, including in big enterpises.
Even 720p is still overkill if we talk about video conferencing since your zoom video is just barely VGA resolution on the other end. You only look at yourself better in your own computer.

1080p is more useful in situation such live streaming or self video recording.
 
I can't see this happening to be honest, it will need a thicker lid for one, and secondly, apple improved the web cams on the M1 air and pro using software, I can just see more software improvements which will utilise the M1X chip...

Just looking on Currys/PC World website here in the UK, even the most expensive laptops only have 720p webcams still, the only laptops which have better than this are two in ones.
 
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I'm glad they will be showing us the "best camera ever" in an Apple computer.

Because 2021 won't longer be remembered like 2005.
 
Any news on external GPU support? Over the last 10 years Apple has made it less possible to upgrade your Mac laptop. On my 2019 MBP the eGPU is the last user upgradable component besides an external monitor. I'm waiting for the current CPU shortage to upgrade my GPU to keep my workflow humming along. If Apple locks out external AMD GPUs then I think I'll switch to a linux PC. It's been a great 15 year relationship Apple but you keep making toys instead of computers and restricting people's right to upgrade and repair their own computers. First it was hard drives soldered on, then it was RAM, then it was GPUs integrated with CPUs. I miss Steve Jobs. He made computers to do work with and Tim Apple just wants to sell consumer services. It's now about consumption and not producing things on your computer. You can build a PC of similar specs to the Mac Pro for about a third of the price. MacOS is good but is becoming iPadOS+ and is getting bloated with useless crap like widgets and Siri. I hardly ever use the Mac App Store as the apps I use (Photoshop, Maya, IntelliJ, DaVinci Resolve etc.) install directly from their website or from a terminal window. I can run linux, windows or both on AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs and keep up to date for far less hassle. I expect to keep my computers for about 5 years and unless a viable replacement comes in the form of a 14" mMBP with eGPU support then I'm going to look elsewhere. Steve Wozniak is now criticising the company he helped form as well. Apple is stifling innovation.
 
Finally, the courage include a 1080p camera in 2021!
A 4K Dolby Vison HDR FaceTime Cam would be much more desired as an option for Macbook Pro users. There's a Logitech 4K Brio magnetic camera for the Pro Display XDR after all.

That said, Web Cams in general suck. Pros will only raise their eyebrows when there's a DSLR quality lens added to Web Cams to happily pay whatever to add it as an upgrade.

Until then, external DSLR is where it's at for professional meetings.
 
From every new iMac webcam examples that I saw, the quality is dope.

Even the 720p MBA looks better than most competitors, but the new 1080p camera with the image processing is a whole new level, looks better than every other webcam I saw, except maybe the 4K Logitech Brio.

People be like they needed you to have a 1080p so they can see your boogers. Yet they don't realise most of the time you'd end up being a little square next to other people in a 1080p screen in a compressed stream. Even if full screen 720p was okay, specially right before the pandemic, when if we are honest webcam resolution (that only others enjoy, not you) was pretty low in people's priorities list.

Should Macs for their price be packing 1080p cams a long time ago? Heck yeah. Was it a must as some people here try to make it? Just no.
 
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Any news on external GPU support? Over the last 10 years Apple has made it less possible to upgrade your Mac laptop. On my 2019 MBP the eGPU is the last user upgradable component besides an external monitor. I'm waiting for the current CPU shortage to upgrade my GPU to keep my workflow humming along. If Apple locks out external AMD GPUs then I think I'll switch to a linux PC. It's been a great 15 year relationship Apple but you keep making toys instead of computers and restricting people's right to upgrade and repair their own computers. First it was hard drives soldered on, then it was RAM, then it was GPUs integrated with CPUs. I miss Steve Jobs. He made computers to do work with and Tim Apple just wants to sell consumer services. It's now about consumption and not producing things on your computer. You can build a PC of similar specs to the Mac Pro for about a third of the price. MacOS is good but is becoming iPadOS+ and is getting bloated with useless crap like widgets and Siri. I hardly ever use the Mac App Store as the apps I use (Photoshop, Maya, IntelliJ, DaVinci Resolve etc.) install directly from their website or from a terminal window. I can run linux, windows or both on AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs and keep up to date for far less hassle. I expect to keep my computers for about 5 years and unless a viable replacement comes in the form of a 14" mMBP with eGPU support then I'm going to look elsewhere. Steve Wozniak is now criticising the company he helped form as well. Apple is stifling innovation.
Considering Nvidia is on the way of buying ARM, it would be nice to have an Nvidia RTX options on MacOS. Otherwise, I'll still need to have a workstation PC & 2019+ Mac Pro.

I'd be happy to consolidate the two again; it'd be great to use my 3090 on Final Cut in addition to Premiere & etc on PC.
 
People be like they needed you to have a 1080p so they can see your boogers. Yet they don't realise most of the time you'd end up being a little square next to other people in a 1080p screen with a compressed image to save up data. Even if full screen 720p was okay, specially right before the pandemic, when if we are honest webcam resolution (that only others enjoy, not you) was pretty low in people's priorities list.

Should Macs for their price be packing 1080p cams a long time ago? Heck yeah. Was it a must as some people here try to make it? Just no.
The world doesn't revolve around your camera needs. It's no secret an overwhelming amount of people who do video calls/stream often do not like the Webcam in the Macbook Pro & etc.

It'd be nice to not have to use an external DSLR just to have respectable video quality. It's overwhelmingly positive the reaction to people seeing you in much better video quality as well.

Whether it's for dating apps or professional meetings.
 
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