Yes...I saw the post by Liz as well but it would still be nice to hear something official from Farnell or RS. Afterall, we have been hearing all kinds of things from the foundation for months that hasn't exactly panned out as they intended.
It's all a bit academic when this first lot will go on sale, as it's only 2,000 units that have arrived in the UK so it's a drop in the ocean. Nothing is known about the other 8,000 of the first batch. Presumably they're still in the factory having their RJ45 fault repaired by hand, as otherwise the Foundation would likely have announced that they've been shipped as they did with the first 2,000.
And while the first 10,000 has symbolic significance, that too is just a drop in the ocean compared to demand, so it's puzzling why date of first delivery is causing so much agitation --- it's not really of much interest to the vast majority, other than as a source of disappointment.
A far more interesting question is when boards will actually first appear in open stock rather than satisfying preorders.
I agree, that's why I was curious about their plans for order fulfilment rather that when they were shipping any of the first 2000 (or 8000 for that matter). I mean if I understand correctly after the first 10,000 units, the boards won't even be manufactured at the same facility. Farnell and RS are supposed to be taking over the manufacturing, I haven't heard anything about the progress of this. I would imagine that if they have the manufacturing facilities that I am led to believe then they could start supplying a fairly large number of these in rather short order.
I sure hope so, as this whole saga has been ridiculous. We want to be working with the units, not talking about their delivery or lack thereof. I wish we had board schematics at least, which would help to focus attention in a more technical direction.
My order changed status on Monday night to 'processing', so I'm hoping Australia might be seeing them next week. They did say in their announcement that Australia was amongst the countries receiving part of the first batch.
