If you read their last update once more you can find that, the statement self says the shipment will only start on 31July.
Like I said, this was from Fiaz on his own forum lastnight. Just going by what he claims.
Regarding the rack mountable - I think we have to thank the guys here, I forget who first mentioned the CE certification, but that appears to be the reason for the change (PS on outside). What is odd and conflicting is that AT says we are not consumers but are businesses. Well, if that is true, should they have rack mountable (easily) units? I am not sure on the units going in racks now. Not an issue with me, or even most here I would think, but a bit ironic.
I think I was the first to mention that. But you know what's sad? THEY didn't think about it/realize it. They're the one designing equipment to go round the world, and they weren't aware of a basic requirement of electronics engineering for their own country? I don't even live in the UK and I'm aware. Does that speak volumes about them or what?
Speaking of rack mountable, go look at the picture of their final design for their systems on their website. It shows a 1U design. Then look at their case design in their forum, it looks like an ATX case. Totally not the same design. In fact, with them placing PCIE connectors on the outside of the box/edge, it sounds like they're using a KNC design, go look at the Jupiters from lastyear. That's how the Viper case design looks.
They're literally piecing this together as they go along, flying by the seat of their chair. There was no long term design, and if there was they had no idea what they were doing.
Not true about connecting them to a computer, you don't need to. You will be able to SSH in to the units as far as I understand. They took it off the table and then put it back on (minus some other bells and whistles), so I think you are talking about that first announcement (I hope). I don't feel like going through the Raspberry Pi again, was fun at first but I want things simpler, like I agreed to here.
I'm going off of what Fiaz said lastnight (6/24) in one of the updates / questions part of their forum. They took out the comptroller (the device you could ssh into). Another person on their forum asked how it would be controlled, and it was mentioned that it would likely be connected to a computer. He mentioned that the webgui was coming back. I think I'm even being confused as to what they're including and excluding at this point, because they took the webgui out awhile back.