@trixie
I ordered the bare motherboard without memory. Maybe they need to prepare the microSD card for each order. But writing such a small image to a microsd card in windows takes less than a minute.
I am not sure what you mean with all sorts of quality testing but I surely hope that they didn't order those X5000 boards without factory testing (AOI, boundary scan, FPT/ICT), functional test). Because this is a huge quality risk given the complexity of the board. You cannot cover such a board with just functional testing afterwards. Maybe just filter out the DOA ones. But the ones that cause random lockups or grimreapers will most likely slip through. And the manual handeling (especially in a non-ESD safe environment) will also add significantly to the failure rate.
Upon ordering, the shipment was shown to be 2-5 days. I counted extra for "after brexit" customs clearance. But it looks like that it already might take 5 days before it will be shipped.
I guess I am too impatient for the amiga world. Or spoiled by the non-amiga world. But likely a combination of both.