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Contrary opinion: I don't see the need for a high-quality camera on a laptop. I can't think of another good use besides Zoom calls and Facetime and the like, when your counterparties in the meeting are all going to be seeing a scaled-down image anyway.

Stick in some decent and cheap camera, and put the money into stuff that matters like computing capabilities, RAM, storage, networking, screen, etc.



Any use besides… one of the most common uses of the laptop in general in this remote-work era…


Right, and you don't need an ultra-HD camera for your face to appear in a small tile on someone else's remote screen.


Who says it's a small tile? It's common for me to have meetings where nobody is sharing screen. In a one-on-one meeting, someone's face might be taking up my entire screen as we talk.


Sometimes my team record short presentations or updates to each other to share in Slack and it's nice to be in higher quality. It's noticeable when someone is using a laptop camera or something else.




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