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June 29, 2007

hardware

Silent iSight upgrade

Posted Jun. 29, ’07, 6:27 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Hardware

Ecamm The guys over at Ecamm (also located in Massachusetts with Dan and I) have discovered some interesting new aspects of the new MacBook Pros. First, System Profiler reports the manufacturer as Apple Inc. instead of Micron as all earlier Macs have.

The second, and far more interesting aspect, is that the camera is capable of outputting 1.3 megapixels pictures. That’s a big jump from the original VGA specs of the iSight (1280x1024 vs 680x480). It also supports some other calls for adjusting the picture and uses a different compression format. 10.4.10 includes a new UVC driver (which allows for the use of many USB webcams, as Apple still hasn’t released a replacement for the now discontinued standalone iSight).

I’m surprised Apple didn’t include this as a selling point.


1 Comments

exnihilo said:

I think that's prob. because Apple was playing catch-up with the other laptop manufacturers that had used 1 megapixel cameras long ago.

July 1, 2007 5:17 PM

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