Laptop cameras seem to be about 20 years behind cell phone cameras in image quality, my experience is that it’s almost certain that the camera in a PC laptop burns out in 2 years. I’ve had them go bad in macbooks too but I think they hold up better. I’ve never seen a mobile device camera fail without the device failing completely.
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a camera burning out on any device, I wonder what you’re skiing with your laptop camera that its burning out so quickly
I've had two in the past 5 years. One with inverted colors and noise on the image from Logitech and another one from a Predator notebook that could very well be a cabling issue. These days I consider cameras disposable.