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New 12-inch Retina MacBook: Front Facing 480P camera test

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The 640×480 .3 Megapixel camera on the new Retina MacBook would seem a little out of place (time? wrong decade?) on Apple’s new flagship product at first glance but from the video above you can tell critics of Apple’s ‘form over function’ don’t have a leg to stand on. After all, very few people complained when Nintendo put a 640×480 camera on the 3DS 5+ years ago and look how popular that was.

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via MKBHD and DetroitBorg

Comments

  1. Jeff McNabb (@nevember) - 10 years ago

    Was it because of thinness?
    I was wondering if it was because Facetime would stutter doing 720p while powering the retina display with that little intel 5300.

  2. dComments (@dComments) - 10 years ago

    We didn’t pay $1300 for a 3Ds.

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