Word of advice, wait about a month or two before you buy this card if you are running windows 2000 or XP this way, all your stuff will be supported. As far as the delay, the Radeon 8500 received such bad press due to drivers that ATI is probably trying to get all the errors out of this one before they release it to help their poor driver rep. The features do look great but the AIW Radeon does everything that I need so I do not plan on upgrading at least for another year.
If it works for you then don't fix it.