John C Tharp

Also thing about video users; an f/4 UWA that's well-corrected for distortion can takes front filters is its own quality.

Main reason to buy the Canon is in-camera correction in video for CA, distortion, and vignetting.

I tried to do a video with Samyang's 14/2.8 with its infamous distortion to comical result once!

Because they can be adapted to mirrorless, but not the other way around.

No reason you can't have upgradeable ARM-based systems- the reason the M1 is this way is because it's the same SoC from tablet to laptop to desktop. Same for storage and even expansion slots /...

If you buy an M1 *anything*, you're topped out at 16GB.

That's the problem.

ARM on Windows isn't new at all; it just didn't catch on the last two or three times they tried it, and it's only 'catching on' this time because Apple's doing ARM.

Doesn't mean that this won't be...

'Freedom'

Nope. I use them all (typing on an OpenSUSE-based distro ATM), and I use Lightroom (and my wife Photoshop) because they're the best at what they do. Tried plenty of alternatives, the...

This ARM vs. x86 talk is a bit funny; many seem to not understand the fundamentals of why Apple's M1 is performing so well.

It's not ARM, and we should be very hesitant to say 'Windows ARM' is...

Also, re: user experience.

This is the main reason I'm still shooting Canon, and if you'd flipped a coin for Nikon, well, that's what I did years ago and if Nikon had won the toss I'd still be...

I'd stuck with Android for so long because I believed that the phone should be good at things other than being a phone (or in general, a communications device).

Buying Pixels, and then the iPhone,...

I swore by my Pixels Ilia, right up until I caved and both my wife and myself traded in for iPhone 12's. My Pixel 3a had literally everything I needed, including a great camera and great headphone...

It's a phone article so... can't avoid comparisons to Apple. My wife did the same thing, actually, because she won't use Android regardless of the hardware in play.

As for 720p cams on laptops,...

There's been rumor talk of Apple putting SD card readers back in as well as being a bit more liberal with ports.
If the rumored Macbook Pro 14 has both, and they ditch that near-useless touchbar, I...

Main annoyance with OLEDs currently beyond availability is that they're not being pushed to higher refresh rates, and also that they're largely 16:9.
For this laptop I'd still get the 240Hz IPS,...

Raw materials? Sure.
Foundry capacity? TSMC doesn't come close, much as we all wish they could. I'd like to buy a new GPU sometime this century myself.

I mean, I have... half a dozen home-built PCs serving a number of purposes and still use pre-built laptops because one cannot get a well put together laptop custom-built.

I get the idea of loading both major processors up to check performance degradation under full heat-soak conditions, but this is just one data point, essentially the 'worst-case'.
However,...

Well first, AMD would have to actually have those available in volume. Which means that TSMC would have to have capacity to spare, and well, they don't.

But Intel does!

This is the 'buy what is...

Gotta say, the SD card reader was definitely something that I really wanted, and I'm glad that Dell wised up and brought it back for their larger XPS units.

Like most things, you really shouldn't be upgrading 'every generation', more like second or probably third, and that's if you have a business case for 'keeping up with the Joneses'.

The reason...