Anyone who purchases mining gear with the intent of profiting is doing so with the hope that difficulty will level off sometime in 2014 so that mining will be marginally profitable long-term.

This is a matter of opinion. Belief bordering on religion. My personal opinion is that if they were shipped in the beginning of Aug. theystill wouldn't make their money back because the difficulty, and the hashrate driving it, would have risen enough to compensate for it due to an increased amount of hardware becoming available.

All the profitability predicters do not take into account that if the hardware were priced cheaper to allow breakeven, they amount of hardware purchased would increase to nulify the lower price. There are a lot of reasons to mine Bitcoin, but increasing your wealth is rarely one of them.

Please correct me if I'm wrong - but if these October units don't ship until October, then people will never make their money back. Forget about profit! :/

http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/a/df9a6ceb29

No.  Yes.  No.  Yes.  

(There are windows utilities that can format an SD card and write SD images.)

Really, that link referenced earlier said specificly there wasn't. *kicks the internet for lieing to me*

Well, i'm going to do it on the linux machine anyway since it is a faster down load.

Does the V2 img contain the correct chainminer? or does that need to be downloaded too?

ChainMiner for M Board Version 2.X boards
DO not use this guide for Version 1x m-boards.
It will fry your chips.  This is only meant for Version 2 of the M-board.
I apologize for grammar as I took 2 sleeping pills and I can barely feel my fingers.

1.login as pi or root

2.  type "nanorun/shm/.stat.log"   if you wish to see the performance of all the chips on your board before upgrading chain miner.
(optional step)
3.(backup your chainminer version)  (this creates a copy of the folder)
a. sudo cp -aopt/bitfuryusr/bitfury.backup
b. cdopt/bitfury/
c. pwd  (make sure you are inopt/bitfury)
d. ls -al (or type dir)
e. rm -rf chainminer  (this removes everything in the chainminer folder)
4.  make sure you are in theopt/bitfury directory and not inopt/bitfury/chainminer (it should be deleted anyway
5.  type "git clone https://github.com/bfsb/chainminer.git"
6.  it should now start getting the chainminer git.
7.  now type "cd chainminer"  you should now be in the chainminer directory
8.  type "make"
9.  Its going to take 5-10 minutes to create the chainminer...maybe longer.
 I got some warning but everything was fine after it all finished.
 it will go back to a  bash prompt when done.
9a.  Just wait...this is the longest part of doing this change..
10.  sudo reboot

Win32DiskImager works perfect in windows to throw the image on an SD card: http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

Don't panic after you load the image to the SD card and afterwards it shows the max capacity is like 54mb or something. It always shows this way in windows after loading a linux image on it.

I've placed orders for additional H boards on the 19th, 24th and 25th.  And by the looks of my order numbers and the number of units left in the store, very few people seem to making additional purchases.  I can't believe people haven't snapped-up the remaining stock in minutes.  What gives?*

*Please, no discussion of ROI is necessary if you respond to my post.  I've heard it ALL!  And am completely bored with annoying ROIer rants.

don't know about everyone else, but i'm running out of money. heh,