So, does the RX100 live up to all the hype?

Ray Sachs wrote:

Sorry, I should have been more clear. The LX7 has about a one stop advantage in LENS SPEED / APERTURE wide open and more as you move up through the zoom range, while the RX100 has a commensurate advantage as you move up in ISO. From looking at the comparometer, which is limited to jpegs unfortunately, the only place I see a clear advantage to the Sony is at base ISO, where the resolution is really a big deal. But as you move up into 800, 1600, and 3200 ISO, if I can shoot the LX7 at 1600 where I'd need 3200 on the RX100, I don't see much difference between them, or any difference I care about.

But I still might have gone for the RX100 but for the inability to zone focus with it. That's not a big deal at all to most people who don't use it if they even remember what it is. But I use it extensively for the type of street shooting I do a lot of. That's not ALL I'd be buying this camera for, but I do enough of it I'd never buy a camera that I couldn't comfortably use that way. Hence, for me, its a deal breaker. I'll take a camera I can use almost exactly how I like and really helps me GET the shot than one that I'd be fighting with and missing shots on, even if those I got looked a bit better.