How much worse is the 12MP webcam on the M4 Macs compared to the 1080p webcam on previous Macs? It seems counterintuitive, but the 12MP center stage camera apparently is worse than the 1080p web cam of the previous Macs because of the center stage processing, meaning that the 12MP takes picture of the entire room and then digitally crops the person to keep him/her in the center. So only a portion of the 12MP camera is used on the centered person, and the actual total pixels used to show the person in the center is less pixels than the previous 1080p camera. In other words, the image created is a digitally zoomed and cropped picture with less than 1080p pixels, so the image is more blurry and noisy. It is not like the entire 12MP of the camera is all used on the image centered, the 12MP sensor is used to take a picture of the entire room, and since the camera does not physically move to center the person but just digitally crops the 12MP image to show the centered person, maybe only 2MP is used on the image of the person centered. The picture quality is even worse when you have your picture centered and the picture of your desk is also shown at the same time, since the 12MP camera has to be divided between cropping you and also cropping the desk picture.
Trading in my 14" M3 Pro MBP 12/18/18/1TB for the 16" M4 Pro MBP 14/20/24/1TB. Prior to the 14" I had a 16" and I miss that big beautiful beast. Thought I would use the 14" more remotely, but then came the iPad M4 11", which I fell in love with, so the 16" will be better for my current desk top configuration. Also some pretty impressive performance gains and more RAM as additional benefits. How about you? You going to trade in your M1 Max? What configuration are you getting if you do. Guess I'll have to subscribe to find out.
Are you picking up any of the new Mac’s released?!
I got a Mac Mini 😎
How much worse is the 12MP webcam on the M4 Macs compared to the 1080p webcam on previous Macs? It seems counterintuitive, but the 12MP center stage camera apparently is worse than the 1080p web cam of the previous Macs because of the center stage processing, meaning that the 12MP takes picture of the entire room and then digitally crops the person to keep him/her in the center. So only a portion of the 12MP camera is used on the centered person, and the actual total pixels used to show the person in the center is less pixels than the previous 1080p camera. In other words, the image created is a digitally zoomed and cropped picture with less than 1080p pixels, so the image is more blurry and noisy. It is not like the entire 12MP of the camera is all used on the image centered, the 12MP sensor is used to take a picture of the entire room, and since the camera does not physically move to center the person but just digitally crops the 12MP image to show the centered person, maybe only 2MP is used on the image of the person centered. The picture quality is even worse when you have your picture centered and the picture of your desk is also shown at the same time, since the 12MP camera has to be divided between cropping you and also cropping the desk picture.
I have a M1 Mac mini but I’m def upgrading to the new Mac mini
Congrats on the upgrade!!
I’m torn between Mac mini and the iMac.
What did you go with?
Trading in my 14" M3 Pro MBP 12/18/18/1TB for the 16" M4 Pro MBP 14/20/24/1TB. Prior to the 14" I had a 16" and I miss that big beautiful beast. Thought I would use the 14" more remotely, but then came the iPad M4 11", which I fell in love with, so the 16" will be better for my current desk top configuration. Also some pretty impressive performance gains and more RAM as additional benefits. How about you? You going to trade in your M1 Max? What configuration are you getting if you do. Guess I'll have to subscribe to find out.
I am staying put with my M1 Max! it does everything I need it to do and more. No need for an upgrade on my end!