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Weirdly, Apple launched the new M4 chip inside the Apple iPad Pro, which will cost anywhere from $999 to a whopping $1,499. We assume that it will appear in an even more expensive Mac a bit later.
Macworld has a deep dive on the new Apple M4, which includes four performance cores, six efficiency cores and a 10-core GPU. (The GPU is the same as the existing M3.) In addition, there's a new Neural Engine, the Apple NPU which executives say delivers 38 trillion operations per second (TOPS) from 16 cores.
As you may be aware, AI is hot right now. And chip manufacturers have been feverishly measuring their AI TOPS performance compared to one another. Tim Millet, Apple vice president of platform architecture, claimed Tuesday that the M4 is "more powerful than any neural processing unit in any PC today."
And that's true. For right now.
Unfortunately, Qualcomm executives are already on record claiming that their Snapdragon X Elite's NPU delivers 45 TOPS. And while PCs with the Snapdragon X Elite inside them have yet to ship, they're expected to be announced in as little as two weeks, in a launch event on May 20. There, Microsoft is expected to show off the Microsoft Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 with Snapdragon X Elite chips inside them. Asus, mean
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Why buy a Windows Hello webcam? Most laptops now include a webcam of some form or another, some with Windows Hello built in. Desktops don't, however. If you share an apartment with someone else (or just want to avoid typing in your password), Microsoft's biometric Windows Hello system uses a depth camera plus facial-recognition technology to log you in to Windows 10 or Windows 11 in a split second. And there's more: passkeys are hot, and they use Windows Hello as well.
Below, I've listed several Windows Hello webcams that I recommend. I start with 4K Windows Hello webcams first, if only because I really think that your appearance makes a difference in a video call. But the budget (and clearly the most popular) picks all use 1080p resolution instead. Want more information? I've included a buying guide and a FAQ after the best Windows Hello webcam picks. You can also review PCWorld's 1080p and 4K webcam buyer's guide for recommendations on webcams without Windows Hello support.
Why you should trust me: I've been a technology reporter and writer for 30 years, with 10 years covering consumer technology for PCWorld alone. I've written about Windows Hello and supported webcams since Windows Hello launched in 2015, and have authored a separate roundup of
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