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If they used an XPS people might accidentally realize that you don't need a notch to put a camera at the top of your screen.



But then they'd have to show the corresponding person in the video call as being nothing but a floating nose.


The XPS line fixed that last year. It's at the top of the screen in a super thing bezel.


The new XPS has windows hello AND a super thin bezel. Imagine that.


Dell uses a low quality 720p camera on their XPS line.

And the notch gives them room for a future FaceID sensor stack.


> And the notch gives them room for a future FaceID sensor stack

If that's really the reason, why not just delay putting the notch on until they're actually doing that?


And Apple only just with the new MBPs upgraded to 1080p.

And Dell supports Windows Hello 3D face recognition without a notch.

It's not quite as unbalanced as you imply.


And the notch was only just introduced. Not sure what your point is here.


The initial implication, "Dell's webcam implementation sucks. Apple's is better because of the resolution and position, which allows facial recognition".

Apple's resolution was equally as bad as Dell's until eight days ago.

Dell's position allows facial recognition without cutting into the screen.

So my point is that contrary to several comments implying how "obvious" it is that Apple's webcam implementation is superior, it's not necessarily obvious, nor superior.


Why can't the most valuable company in the world just engineer a solution? Dell was able to fit infrared facial unlock inside that tiny bezel too, so I don't really buy the "it's for faceID" argument (especially since they didn't include the hardware this time). It's a ridiculous decision by a company that deserves to be ridiculed for cutting corners on a professional device.


Man. The screen was not cut by a notch, rather it grow to envelope the camera.

Compare the top bezel in a pre-notch mac book and you will see that the camera is basically on the same place as before, but the bezel is now smaller.


The function row wasn't replaced by the touch bar, the screen just grew to envelop the keyboard!




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