Indeed. Also the specs... All say regulated at 2,8A and runtimes on high of 2,5h. Sounds 1A max to me and that is pure rubbish for P7. If driven at 2,8 wouldn't be that bad but all are single 18650 and 4.2V max to boot, which make them a runtime rat. Tint looks rather greensih.
Anyone got theit XM-L yet? All pictures i saw were quite blue... I hope the t6 bin doesen't turn to be White cold extreme polar icy blue...
I wouldn't see why Cree wouldn't sell SSC the dies now, especially if Cree stops their own production on the MC-E. Might as well make money off of older technology when you can, right?
Kind of reminds of ID Software (Doom, Quake series) and their rendering engines for video games - ID games would always have the latest and greatest, and they'd license their last-generation software (good, but not the best) to other companies.
The one thing that I could see really keeping this from happening is if Cree runs in to production capacity problems and needs to machine time for the XM-L dies.
that could happen, based on all i've read. we'll see, but it seem that the xm-l's will "outshine" everything, except they still won't work best as throwers.