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Logitech QuickCam for Notebook
Logitech (
04 November, 2002 )
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Not what I expected !!!!  |
Being a loyal Logitech customer and putting my trust into their Trade Mark I purchased this cam for my laptop without investigating the reviews. I was very disappointed after seeing the picture quality was the worst I have ever seen. For some reason Logitechs webcam designers lack common sense. The cam does not grip the laptop as you expect it to do, and just hangs on the screen making it useless if you plan to move your laptop around. Well thats is not a big deal, but they should not sell cams with that sort of picture quality. I was depressed for hours to see how ugly i looked on the cam. Having bought QuickCam 3000, I found the design on that one was also very unprofessional, I had to use glueteck to keep the camera in place and nail down the heavy wire, which was connected directly to the very light cam lense, to stop it dragging the cam with it. But they have fixed both those design problems on QuickCam 4000. How these cams pass the quality test, god knows.If you want a cam for your laptop, i suggest go for QuickCam 4000. Even though it it not a laptop cam, you will find the overal design and picture quality would be the most important aspect of a cam in the long run.
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Great idea - when it works |
I had a few problems when first installing the card, even though I was running Windows XP SP1, I still had to download the drivers from the Belkin website. This product works fine under Windows XP Pro, the data transfer speed is significantly faster than that of USB 1. However, on my Windows XP Home laptop, when I have my external hard drive plugged into the card and I try to open a file my machine freezes and I am forced to reboot! Not particularly helpful, and the manufacturers website has so far given no clues...
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Good, but a pain to install.  |
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Finally got the USB2 card running after four hours of playing about removing, installing and updating windows drivers.
I followed the installation instructions to the letter but unfortunatly the card would not auto install under win XP home edition (fully updated & at SP1) correctly.
The manufacturers website online help was poor and it was only my experience of windows operating systems that allowed me to complete the installation correctly.
I fear for the casual home user who is expecting correct plug and play operation.
However when the card is installed you have a very good and cheap (for notebook) usb2 upgrade. True it sticks out of the side, but not enough to be of concern. In the majority of cases you can use it without the power adapter (which does ship with it) the only exceptions are some bus powered scanners and web cams otherwise it is a well constructed and good performing upgrade card.
The only question that remains is: When oh when, will microsoft and third party vendors get plug and play right??
Verdit buy it and try it, but be prepared to play with the device manager if need be.
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