I ordered mine early, and they were backordered for about a week before they shipped.
Personally, I enjoyed it :). It was a new experience for me, not a particularly useful one, but a good one nonetheless. I learned operators for port manipulation for one thing (which, obviously, I could have learned elsewhere, but this gave me an excuse to learn it :P). I've still got one unopened (which I'm open for trading for various things ;D).