I am a little of two minds. I like the CEM60EC, but the new design of the EQ8 overcomes a lot of the compromises that had me looking toward the ioptron, with a much bigger payload to boot. I presume the EQ8 still has manually adjusted worm mesh which would count against it to a degree.
I am not buying another mount until at least some time next year, plenty of time for the early adopters to find the issues that did not turn up in pre release testing.
Regards Dylan and promoting Celestron stuff. Dylan is officially part of "Team Celestron" but it also pretty heavily involved with Bintel so it does not surprise me that he was involved in this launch, Celestron don't quite have anything in this payload weight class anyway.
https://www.celestron.com/blogs/team...dylan-odonnell