MacBook Pros feature a 1.3MP camera sensor

Ken at Mac Daddy World confirmed an interesting discovery with a friend recently. Namely, the Santa Rosa MacBook Pros don't feature the same iSight as the previous MBP model

Pictured at right is a snapshot from System Profiler on my own MBP (a 2.0 GHz Core Duo), above, and Ken's (a Santa Rosa model), below. As you can see, the manufacturer has been changed from "Micron" to "Apple, Inc." Plus, the product ID has changed from "0x8501" to "0x8502."

But wait, there's more. While Ken was able to produce a VGA (640×480) image with an "older" MacBook Pro featuring the original iSight, the Santa Rosa model produced a much larger 1.3 MP (1280×1024) image (you can see both images at Mac Daddy World). Pretty cool.

Thanks, Ken!

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jacob

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that I can hardly scan any books into Delicious Library using the iSight on my new MBP. Can any new MBP owners comment on this?

June 27 2007 at 9:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

OK, you are right. The larger picture isn't very good at all. Scaling down to half resolution and backup again shows so little detail loss that it's not funny.

June 27 2007 at 6:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

PSM

Ooh, fun. I thought my new MBP was cool already, now I'm even more glad I waited. Hopefully there will be apps to take advantage of this soon.

JeffDM, the link does have sample pictures from the old and new camera.

June 27 2007 at 5:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chad Zeluff

Maybe this explains why my dev copy of Leopard just DOES NOT WORK with my MBP...

June 27 2007 at 4:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Are there any sample pictures? I didn't notice any links here or in the linked story. Not that I'm expecting much, a lens the size of a pinhead is not going to collect a lot of light, and I doubt the light sensitivity of the sensor is improved much.

June 27 2007 at 4:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jon

You think it is the same camera HW that is in the iPhone? I do.

June 27 2007 at 4:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sander Backus

How to find software to actualy use this higher-resolution, photobooth isn't doing it.

June 27 2007 at 4:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David

That is pretty nice if it's true I guess, though Dell is using a 2MP camera in their XPS M1330 (though only 0.3MP/VGA in the LED backlit version)

June 27 2007 at 3:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tehpyro

Why is the micron version 1.84 and the Apple Inc Version 1.45?