I'm on the west coast. I ordered on the 14th after 2 cancellations (one without edu discount, which was a pain for me to get working right.. eventually uploaded acceptance, and one my mistake on charging wrong account)from the west coast. I've been anxiously waiting. I can hopefully report that good news tomorrow.
I've always thought the ipads and RT type OS's weren't worth my time. I'm sure they suffice for some... I have an iphone. I've been holding off on tablets since conception, I'm an older guy at 41. I don't have work that needs it (yet), using my g.i. bill to go back to school and am hoping that this is what I want. My old laptop was from 2009, it was a Clevo with a desktop i7-920... it's still a great gaming laptop, but I would love to use a tablet for something that needs to be so mobile. I think my time has come and I decided to get the i5/8/256. I'm a true power house user... only because I've had the money and enjoy benchmarks and games to be honest so far, nothing school or work related. I was seriously considering the i7 for the extra cpu/gpu boost, since I can see myself playing some games when stuck for a large enough period of time. However, with such a late push back, talk of the broadwell/(insert ever advancing tech here) and such seemingly quick iterations I'll be good. This should last for a while until they truly perfect the art.