[astroglide]

nvidia and ati support years worth of cards with their unified drivers. nvidia does all of the geforce series, agp and pci-e. ati does all of the radeon series, agp and pci-e. unified graphics drivers are seen as a huge, now standard feature and i don't think that is at all likely to change. and longhorn is at microsoft's most optimistic due out in the third quarter of 2006. if somebody wants to save a few bucks i don't think they're giving up a whole lot by skipping pci-e.