Things may be better than we thought. From imaging-resource:
"My pre-release Nikon D700's Auto-area AF mode was considerably faster at calculating in-focus areas than the Nikon D300, behaving more like the Nikon D3. If this makes it into the shipping version, it would be a welcome change, because the D300's AF-acquisition slows down too much in this mode."
"My pre-release Nikon D700's Auto-area AF mode was considerably faster at calculating in-focus areas than the Nikon D300, behaving more like the Nikon D3. If this makes it into the shipping version, it would be a welcome change, because the D300's AF-acquisition slows down too much in this mode."