In late July, a week after ordering the Snapdragon Dev Kit, I wondered where it was. Arrow's website said 'Ships tomorrow' when I ordered, after all.
Many developers eager to test their code on Windows on Arm, on the premiere new 'CoPilot+' PCs that would revolutionize computing as we know it, were also wondering.
I signed up to buy a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Dev Kit the second I found out about it. It's supposed to be the Mac mini killer for Windows.
They even promoted it with this amazing-looking transparent shell, and I and hundreds of other devs were ready to pony up the $899 Qualcomm was asking.
Their pre-order form said it would be out June 18. Almost exactly one month later, I got an email saying it was available. Great!
So I went to the purchase page on Arrow... and it showed as out of stock. That was about 15 minutes after receiving the email.
There were three possibilities: