Not only is the ATI HD4850 going to be obsolete in October. The ATI HD4890 is going to be obsolete soon, too. We know all about support of legacy products. Why buy any soon-to-be legacy product from ATI? Seriously.

Oh come on, have you never read about AdBlocker ?
I am also a long time reader of both, and I come here on Firefox with AdBlocker and NoScript.
You cannot expect me to believe that you didn't know about it, not if you have actually read both the Inq and El Reg for so long.
So if you don't use Firefox with AdBlocker, I fail to see how you can possibly be justified in ranting about ads.
Not here in any case.

Cut out the advertisements that roll halfway down the screen and when you click the little 'x' button take you to another website. I wanted to read the article on the Acer, not go to shaadi.com. I am a very long time reader of both the Inq and the Reg and this does not impress me at all. I understand you have to have some form of revenue, though this will just make me get my daily news from elsewhere. Jr

...a notebook/netbook maker discovers that 4:3 displays let you fit far more information vertically?

It's strange to have gone from the first Y=1200 notebooks a few years back to Y=768 being a norm again.

'but Intel might find this hard to swallow'

it uses the atom z, no restrictions here