Blizz,
You're right!
IMHO, if someone should now how to get the best out of hardware, it should be the manufacturer.
But if they can't, they deserve to be taken not too seriously, and as a result loose sales. And if they know they are going to loose sales because of this, why not spend some extra effort and money to be #1.
I realise a bad reputation is hard to shake, but AMD did !!!
I'll wait for faster and more compatible ATI drivers till the end of January 2002. Otherwise I'll buy a nice superduper sexy NVIDIA Geforce 3 Ti card.