I had a cheap webcam (Veo brand) that i purchsed from Walmart. I purchased this this to replace the earlier webcam. It produces so-so quality under good lighting conditions, but under low light its just horrible, my earlier webcam did much better job than this one. The whole point of buying a notebook webcam is to be on the move, but with this one its more like using your laptop like a desktop just to get good lighting conditions for this webcam.