as far as "ATI WILL RAPE THE 7xxx series"
Well from the current RUMORED <--- keyword there, specs then yeah it'd seem like it......but personally I'm going to wait to see some benches and actual performance.....pretty sure everyone thought the X800pro was gonna RAPE the 6800GTs and look what happened there.
I find it hard to believe nvidia would sit back and put out a card barely above a 6800U and have that compare to the supposed ATI specs....that'd be marketing suicide.......if ATI comes out on top I'll have no problem recognizing that, but for now it's all rumors and speculation.