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What if Macbooks had a space below the trackpad to house a larger camera & maybe face id, when closed?
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The Taptic Engine is in that spot, and that engine is one unit with the trackpad (that engine is what makes the trackpad feel as if it actually clicks). Battery modules are under the trackpad, as well as on both sides of the trackpad. You would need a very big reason to convince Apple to move all of that just to put a camera there. It would also make the laptop vulnerable as now you would have a glass lens outside of the device being bumped around in backpacks.
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The thinness of the lid isn't the reason it doesn't have FaceID. I have a Windows laptop with "Windows Hello" compatible camera (Windows equivalent of FaceID) that has a thinner lid than the MacBook Pro. Macs don't have FaceID because Apple doesn't want to put it in, plain and simple. (No FaceID on the iMac, either. Or the Studio Display. Both more than thick enough.)
Putting a small divot in the bottom would look and feel terrible.
As for quality of camera? It's plenty for webcam use. Laptop form factor makes a terrible "camera", so it doesn't need a 69 megapixel 10x zoom. It needs a webcam.
Putting a small divot in the bottom would look and feel terrible.
As for quality of camera? It's plenty for webcam use. Laptop form factor makes a terrible "camera", so it doesn't need a 69 megapixel 10x zoom. It needs a webcam.
I think any possibility of a Face ID camera on a desktop or monitor has been replaced with unlocking with the Apple Watch. It's great when it works, but every once in a while it will fail or say the WiFi signal isn't strong enough, the usual bugs. I can see a use for Face ID on a desktop or monitor though as well as the Watch could potentially unlock it for someone else if you are nearby, but don't want the person to actually have access.
