Personally I mostly found it amusing that Apple hyped up the image processing in the M1 and specifically mentioned this in relation to the webcam but then in the small print it's like... 720p. Just as it has been for about a decade.
Of course the actual camera unit is superior to the 720p cameras used on older machines. Less graininess and a wider angle for example.
Just kind of funny to choose the camera as something to hype up during the release when it's 720p in 2020/almost 2021.
I'm not mad about it though. You are correct OP, most people are only using the webcam for video conferencing which is so compressed you wouldn't notice the difference between 720p and 1080p anyway. Like most people here I've been doing a lot of video conferencing since Covid and I honestly don't think I could tell if someone's webcam was 720p or 1080p during a video chat with how much compression is applied to the image, especially when it's multi-party video conferences.
Oh this thread reminds me, I need to buy one of those privacy slider things for the webcam on my MBA. Hopefully I can find one thin enough that it won't stop it from closing. Feels wrong to put duct tape on a brand new shiny laptop.
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