<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>pier25</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;A laptop camera is used for conference calls&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;And youtube videos.&lt;p&gt;I agree that 4K can be considered excessive, but 1080p would be the appropriate resolution in 2019 for a high end machine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>macintux</author><text>A phone camera is used to capture moments you want to preserve for posterity. A laptop camera is used for conference calls and no one needs to see all my facial flaws in 4K detail.&lt;p&gt;So, no, I don’t consider this in any way to be a dealbreaker.</text></item><item><author>insta_anon</author><text>Can someone explain to me how Apple can justify only including a 720p FaceTime HD camera into the &amp;quot;the world’s best pro notebook&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;The last iPhone that had this FaceTime camera was the 6S, released in 2015. Since the iPhone 7 (2016) the phones have had at least a 1080p FaceTime camera. Given that FaceTime &amp;#x2F; Skype calls are such a common use case and rarely anyones uses external webcams anymore, why doesn&amp;#x27;t Apple use the existing camera system of the iPhone 11 for the MacBook?&lt;p&gt;Seriously, if I pay north of $4000 dollars for a laptop, why do I get an obsolete camera?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>16-inch MacBook Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-introduces-16-inch-macbook-pro-the-worlds-best-pro-notebook/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fnordsensei</author><text>When doing user research (and I for one reason or another don&amp;#x27;t have other&amp;#x2F;better equipment around), I&amp;#x27;ve used the MacBook as camera, mic, and screen recorder, when applicable (attaching a non-Apple mouse, of course, because those things are bonkers).&lt;p&gt;In these situations, a higher resolution camera wouldn&amp;#x27;t hurt. A better mic is higher priority though, so I&amp;#x27;m happy to see that in the specs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>macintux</author><text>A phone camera is used to capture moments you want to preserve for posterity. A laptop camera is used for conference calls and no one needs to see all my facial flaws in 4K detail.&lt;p&gt;So, no, I don’t consider this in any way to be a dealbreaker.</text></item><item><author>insta_anon</author><text>Can someone explain to me how Apple can justify only including a 720p FaceTime HD camera into the &amp;quot;the world’s best pro notebook&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;The last iPhone that had this FaceTime camera was the 6S, released in 2015. Since the iPhone 7 (2016) the phones have had at least a 1080p FaceTime camera. Given that FaceTime &amp;#x2F; Skype calls are such a common use case and rarely anyones uses external webcams anymore, why doesn&amp;#x27;t Apple use the existing camera system of the iPhone 11 for the MacBook?&lt;p&gt;Seriously, if I pay north of $4000 dollars for a laptop, why do I get an obsolete camera?</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>16-inch MacBook Pro</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/11/apple-introduces-16-inch-macbook-pro-the-worlds-best-pro-notebook/</url></story>