It could be a nice HTPC, but I'm not sure what sort of software is available for MacOS in that area.
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Canon to announce 5 new lenses on October 30
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It could be a nice HTPC, but I'm not sure what sort of software is available for MacOS in that area.
That's covered by the Apple TV already, have three of those in the house. It's got its own tvOS, which is pretty good. I like Samsung TVs, but they don't support streaming apps for nearly as long as the TVs last (e.g. I think 3-4 years after we bought one, it stopped supporting HBO/Max streaming).
Connecting an Apple TV is an easy workaround...well, any HTPC really (but then when I can't find the remote I can't just use my iPhone instead
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That's covered by the Apple TV already, have three of those in the house. It's got its own tvOS, which is pretty good. I like Samsung TVs, but they don't support streaming apps for nearly as long as the TVs last (e.g. I think 3-4 years after we bought one, it stopped supporting HBO/Max streaming).
Connecting an Apple TV is an easy workaround...well, any HTPC really (but then when I can't find the remote I can't just use my iPhone instead
There are things you can do with a HTPC that you can't do with an AppleTV, nVidia Shield and those sorts of things. It's just a niche thing. One sort of example, there is no passthrough audio on the AppleTV. If you have the audio gear and using something like Roon or whatever... the AppleTV isn't for that.
You can also run a jellyfin server sort of thing from the HTPC and stream from it to the AppleTV's around the house. If you watch UHD blu-ray remuxes, it's better from a HTPC.
If you're just a soundbar/spotify/streaming person... then it doesn't matter.
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One those things is being able to control the refresh rate sent to the receiver, most devices and apps default to retiming everything to 60fps, badly. I’ve settled on a shield pro running kodi for the livingroom, it gives me the option to run netflix/disney properly using the official apps. A proper htpc would take too much effort
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One those things is being able to control the refresh rate sent to the receiver, most devices and apps default to retiming everything to 60fps, badly. I’ve settled on a shield pro running kodi for the livingroom, it gives me the option to run netflix/disney properly using the official apps. A proper htpc would take too much effort
I use a Shield Pro too, I have an old computer in the basement running Jellyfin and Roon. The shield can handle the 4K blu-ray stuff over wifi (too much work to put ethernet there).. the GoogleTV stick could not. I use Access Points and not mesh, and that really helped.
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Ok...so:
- RF 24 f/1.4 VCM
- RF 50 f/1.4 VCM
- RF 70-200 f/2.8 Z
- RF-S 7.8 f/4 Dual Lens
- Something that you do not think many are going to be excited about
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Maybe it's me, but I only count four there. Were the different colors of the consumer ILCs 'launching multiple cameras'? Sure, they were separate SKUs, but so are lens kits.
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Yes... the other one is later in November. That is the "soon after" from a previous post.
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Well, the person that said there were 5 coming would count SKU's not models. One of those communication things to not really break an NDA.
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FWIW, I have a MBP 16 with M3 Max (the base 14/30 Max, not the souped up 16/40 Max).My work Mac is a 16” MBP with an M1 Pro chip, the fans are almost always off. The reported concern is that, unlike the M1/M2 Max chips and all of the Pro variants, the M3 Max chips get hot enough under load to require high levels of fan cooling (and thermal throttling, as @Canon Rumors Guy mentions).
Having said that, I strongly suspect the M4 Max won’t have the fan issue, at least not to the same degree. Apple tends to be pretty responsive to things like that (unlike some other manufacturers that are perhaps more relevant in the context of this forum). Case in point, when going from the M1 to the M2, the base storage configuration used fewer NAND chips (one instead of two) and as a result the SSD read/write was slower on the M2 than the M1. The M3 base storage rectified that issue with a return to splitting the SSD across two chips.
I've read that the M4 vs M3 performance boost is not that big (there's a reason Apple compares the M4 to the M1 and Intel Macs), and I've also read the M4 has better thermal management...assuming there's more improvement on the thermal side than the performance side, that looks like the right direction for the fans.
Either way, decision time is getting close....
It is way more powerful than I need (90% I use it to work from home running a VDI), so it is not taxed much.
The fan works when some things such as macOS upgrades happen, but most of the times it is pretty quiet (and battery like is amazing compare to my previous work laptop, which was a run of the mill Dell)
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I don't think the pricing of the lenses should come as a surprise to anyone. Other than the people on facebook that want L lenses for under $1000.
24 $1499
50 $1399
70-200 $2999
VR thing $449
24 $1499
50 $1399
70-200 $2999
VR thing $449
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