Joe:
I think it's actually closer to 7 months (August to March) but I think we've pretty much wrapped up that part of the conversation anyway, so it doesn't really matter that much. I think you bring up a really good point though. ATI currently *is* the only company out right now with a viable highend product. There really is no reason to buy a 5800 series card at this point with the 5900 around the corner, and ATI cards performing better at the same price point. One of ATI's biggest problems is that nvidia has been extremely successful at making people believe that their cards are worth waiting for. They shot themselves in the foot with the NV30 to a certain extent, but look at how the masses of news sites have picked up the doom3 scores for the NV35. It's rather disgusting. At the same time though, the NV35 really *does* look like it's going to be competition in the highend. Still, given that nvidia seems to be the "microsoft" of videocards, ATI is going to need to provide a clearly better product to compete, otherwise the default for most people will be to go with a geforce. I'm not sure if the 9700pro has made enough of an impression yet to stop this.
Nite_Hawk
