I have a better idea: a laptop screen that is legible on a sunny day
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I have an even better idea: A built in webcam that has more an 2 damn pixels
Honest question. Why do you need a selfie camera on a laptop that's more than 2MP? I don't even think Teams/Zoom/Jitsi/etc can stream that much anyway.
I've had times where I need to take a photo of a piece of paper to turn in online for school. You can't read the text if you hold it up to the camera, atleast on my modern laptop.
Also just because it was literally like ~850 bucks (iirc), it should be able to take a decent photo for that insane of a price.
You'd probably be better off using your phone for taking photos of papers. Better camera, better angle/lighting, generally better editing options (with default photo apps, imo Photoshop is overkill for taking a picture of a document, generally I only adjust brightness and contrast). The only downside is needing to get the photo to the laptop, but there's about a million ways to do that depending on your setup.
The built-in cameras use cases are video conferences, so they use the "afterthought" cameras (cheapest they can). I understand your use case, and I agree that the camera quality is shite, never mind the MP count. My 2005 phone shouldn't have had a camera better than my 2024 laptop. Period.
Because everyone has to throw up having to watch crap video stream of my face, well, I am sure it is the resolution’s fault. 🌚
I want a laptop with a trackpoint, keyboard with good (like Model M) key travel and resistance (and water resilience too), color e-ink display (preferably 5:4 or 4:3 screen ratio) with good refresh rate, everything removable, 5G modem, GPIO, additional SSD slot, good set and amount of interfaces (not an Apple fan), and - important - chassis and hinges not made of shit.
Just in case somebody from Lenovo is lurking here.
like Model M
Imagine a laptop with a low-profile buckling spring keyboard... just click-clacking away in Starbucks, annoying everyone around you but you don't care because you have the greatest keyboard ever
They can be silent too, so not even that problem.
Also where I sometimes go with a laptop, nobody will hear the click-clacking.
Pass
Seems like a cool idea, but those screens aren't really ready for this type of prime time.
Foldable phone screens have been around for 5 years, flexible screens longer than that. The tech has been around and ready there's just not heavy adoption yet.
It's been around, and is ready for some implementations, but it's not ready for prime time, and, IMO, a $3400 laptop is prime time.
It seems ideal for wristwear.
What the fuck do you even do on a tall scree... Oh its basically a portable vertical monitor
I mean, that demo model looks like a hot mess of ripples and artefacts from this angle.