" From looking at the above info, you have to bear in mind, as you read all the pending X1800 ?reviews? tomorrow that what the reviewers have on their test-bench is ? for all intents and purposes ? vaporware. ATI will not have product immediately available for either X1800 or Crossfire."
Aside from the whole "to do" with the paper launch, I thought this line was interesting, "We're also curious why, in ATI has been going around touting the pending game, F.E.A.R. as a shader model 3.0 game when it is not."
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