It's 2020 and laptops still have 1 MP cameras. What gives?

[yatra]

Finally an good "loud" message from a good reputation site that may help things change.
I am also disappointed of the lack of consideration a webcam as I use intensively mine multiple days of week. I'm a professional so I clearly do not use my phone to do conferences and I agree the video/audio quality of webcam of a few laptops are pretty bad.
When we see the front facing cameras of phones half the price nowadays, it's clearly a joke.
Please keep pushing in that direction and thank you !

[Rozin]

Customers don't buy laptops just for webcam? Who told you this OEMs? Don't ya people know that we use Skype and other video chat services most of the time and u people think this old webcam tech is enough? >:(

Then, u people got to learn about what we customers need. Of course we need,at least, a good 1080p capable cam on a laptop. It's 2020 and still shitty 720p!!!

[VAMSI KRISHNA ANNEM]

I saw many grand parents who were living away from their grand children,  connect on laptop skype,  with them every week.
Many you tube reaction videos are made with laptops only.

[Abinandan Manna]

 I think they can increase the prices a but and include a camera of atleast 20MP. Nowadays smartphones have cameras even of 64 mp. So why not in laptops? Vudeo conferencing is better via laptops. And though things like ram, cpu, gpu attracts customers, they will surely be repelled after the users' first video conference.

[MamiyaOtaru]

my old Eee 900 (a super budget netbook from 11 years ago) has a 1.3MP camera.  It's been incredibly frustrating to me to see notebooks continue to not have anything better than that

[adityasharma]

Frankly after covid problem, when people are working from homes then how much power is there in processor or whether it has a ssd or not have been replaced by a parameter of moot consideration. This parameter is none other.Its your webcam.
Today i have an i3 or i5 ,it doesnot matter as i can do a VC with both.
Teachers who take online classes have been mandated to see students and recognize them by face so that imposters are not signing in as security breach. In this time ,if laptop companies think that webcam is not so important for users then in my frank opinion somewhere there is a need of a big marketing research.Its your face first by which people see you and know you so how can this feature be neglected.Take MI for example.They have separated webcam from laptop itself.Do you think it really helped them good sales.I had mind to buy a new laptop but due to this reason MI was not in my list no matter they even give me an i7 in 60k INR.

[Claes]

I bought a DELL XPS 15 9500 for $4,000 to be able to move my work with me. My clients think I am coming from some far away past every time I use my new laptop for  net meetings. Lighting is off, image is grainy, everything blurs nicely. Trying to project professionally remotely using this laptop you loose the battle before it even begins.
Buying a lot of extra components kind of defeats the purpose of the laptop.

[Stork]

Lenovo V17 IIL has  0.3mp / 480p front camera - like a first mobile phones. Its ridiculous

[DefiantHuman]

I think that while they don't have to be the best. They should be more than the 0.3MP camera on my $240 HP Chromebook. The camera is a disaster and is terrible for Google Meet.