ATi Radeon 8500

punkmac writes: "The new ATi Radeon 2 8500 is finally here, with previews at Anandtech and Tom's Hardware. Could ATi finally have the killer card that we've all been hoping for? With promises of a 33% speed increase from the GeForce 3, they might." Gamespot has a piece too, all published simultaneously. I love it when a hardware company decides to lift their embargo and all the "independent" reviewers dutifully follow the herd. Compare the three articles and see if you can determine which images/text came directly from the press kit.

All at the same time..

[Anonymous Coward]

Uhh.. it's called a "Non-Disclosure Agreement". They can't release the reviews until Tuesday. Obviously they are all going to release them as soon as possible unless they are complete morons. "Let's release it a day later, that way everyone will have already have read the reviews and we wont get any traffic". Funny how that works, isnt it.

Re:That whole pot thing...

[ethereal]

But of course - you don't think that anyone actually spells so poorly in real press kits, do you? :)

Translation for the marketing impaired:

[Bonker]

Marketing: For those looking for the sweet spot between price and performance...

English: You can't afford the card we're reviewing, nerd-boy. Buy this cheaper one instead... Unless of course, you're interested in our exclusive terms. You've got two kidneys, right?

Marketing: ATI has already revealed extensive details on two of the Radeon 8500's key technologies...

English: ATI's underpaid hardware engineers are hard at work turning the mad fantasies of marketing types into reality. Results will vary...

Marketing: It's the Radeon 8500's ability to do many simultaneous texture effects that has led John Carmack to predict that the new Doom graphics engine will perform twice as well on a Radeon 8500 as on a GeForce3.

English: Please, God, Please let the new id Software titles play on our hardware...

Marketing: The revised API is set to launch at the time of Windows XP's release in October but may first arrive on the ATI driver disk.

English: Keep your pants on, Bill. It'll take a few seconds to get lubed up.

Marketing: For the first time in a PC, the Radeon 8500 will include a component video connector that can connect the card to an HDTV. This component output, which will likely come as an adapter for the DVI-I connector, will make high-quality progressive-scan DVD playback possible on a PC.

English: Not that you'll actually be able to do any of that. We're not going to cross the MPAA, Hell no!

Marketing: The performance-enthusiast market makes up only 5 percent of overall graphics sales, so ATI doesn't expect the Radeon 8500 to be a top seller.

English: Everything we've got is riding on this card, so if you don't buy it, we're going to go bankrupt and be bought out by nVidia.

Marketing: The Radeon 7500 is designed to be very fast in the current crop of games.

English: This card will be obsolete and unsupported in six months. Sell a kidney so you can buy the better card.

Marketing: What the Radeon 7500 lacks in future-proof performance it makes up for in display features.

English: Six months? We meant three months.

Marketing: Both the Radeon 8500 and 7500 are priced competitively against Nvidia's GeForce3 and GeForce2 Pro.

English: You're getting bent over either way, so why not buy from us?

Marketing: Summary - This is a great card and we reccomend you make this a part of your workstation.

English: Summary - If we say anything bad, ATI won't let send us any more toys.

Re:New Hardware Found! PCI Display Adapter

[helixblue]

Heh, you wouldn't happen to be responsible for this error on the Arrivals monitor in Philadelphia airport:

http://profile.sh:81/2001-04/25-Philadelphia-Air po rt/P1010002.JPG

I couldn't believe they used 95 instead of NT or 2000 for this. Looks almost like they had the cute autologin setup when the box crashed, but it looks like the server did too! One of my more humorous photos ;)