Midrange my ass, that was what they came up with and stamped a mid range price on it, im sorry it just dosent float with me, i guess we will see what ATI can come up with in a years time, yet they need to catchup as it seems they are atleast 1 full cycle behind already. Its looking like the AMD/ATI merger was a bad move as Intel and NVIDIA are dominating the market in both areas.

I just purchased an MSI 8800 Ultra which was factory overclocked and its the fastest frekking card ever, im well chuffed with the performance even in the only handful of DX10 games, which still beat the ATIs. And why would ATI release only a mid range card?, I thought the idea was to beat or atleast get close to your rival in benchmarks, to me it makes no sense, you are giving out the wrong impression as NVIDIA will have even more sway for consumers. It just makes the gap look even bigger. And im sure ATI/AMD would be saying this is only our mid range card.