The most obvious solution is to purchase an external webcam and attach it to the top of your laptop. We can all hope for improved laptop design in the future, but is there any relief from the onslaught of blurry Zoom calls right now?
In the future, a 1080p webcam could be a make-or-break feature in laptops. Perhaps users will be willing to put up with a slightly thicker laptop, or a weird camera hump, if it means a better webcam. However, now that we’re using webcams on a daily basis, priorities could change. There simply isn’t enough space behind a typical laptop’s LCD. Phones are noticeably thicker than laptop lids. When asked, a representative from Dell told me that using a smartphone camera would force the laptop to grow in size. As made obvious in the photo above, the orientation of a smartphone module’s connection doesn’t quite work for a laptop. But even with larger bezels, stuffing a smartphone camera into a laptop isn’t easy. Notches or punch holes have become common in phones, intruding in the available screen space. Some have even removed them entirely to shrink the bezels further. Laptop webcams were so low on the priority list that manufacturers even resorted to hiding them under key caps or repositioning them at the bottom of screens. You can’t hold laptops one-handed, so you can hardly imagine someone trying to snap a glorious portrait on one. Unlike a smartphone, where the front-facing camera is commonly used for selfies, laptop webcams aren’t for taking pictures. Laptop webcams were used for the occasional conference call, and not much else. Dell cleared the way for more and more of these modules to be used in other thin-bezel laptops that followed the trend, like the HP Spectre x360.Īt the time, it didn’t seem like a problem. The XPS 13’s design was only the beginning.
Even with software tricks like temporal noise reduction, the XPS 13’s webcam is worse than in years past. The problem? While they did pull it off, the resulting camera has a smaller sensor and lens, two important ingredients in delivering a crisp image. It was innovative and groundbreaking at the time - and something I was delighted by. The normal size of a camera module is 7mm, but Dell worked hard with camera vendors to make a 2.25mm module that could squeeze into the tiny top bezel of the laptop screen. Unlike most tech, webcams on laptops have worsened in recent years, and the XPS 13 takes much of the blame. The biggest Apple design fails and screw-ups of all time The Windows 11 taskbar is getting an important new update The Framework Laptop 16 is officially my most anticipated laptop
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