In the same boat: Est Delivery 8/11, still hasn't shipped.There was still stock when I ordered and they didn't add the limited stock notice until the next day.
Got quoted the $1139.99 price, but asking about the 10% off Home E&A Coupons
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edit: Updated code, got it at $1026.99 + tax, free shipping
You can always try to boot to WinPE and capture the drive to a .wim image with imagex, and then apply the image to a new virtual machine. Not sure if this will work at all--will likely have to deal with a few bluescreens in the process.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Imaging_Format