I have read that they'll produce an initial batch of 3000 units, and at the moment there are 3339 backers on Indiegogo, though not everyone has backed for a Gemini. There's a 25$ perk for a t-shirt only, for example, and many have ordered the front camera which is a separate perk, no idea if indiegogo is counting the latter as separate backers... so maybe me and you will be included in this first batch. Otherwise, it would be more fair that they ship them on a first come-first serve basis.
Doing a quick check, I see 764 WiFi plus 4G; 393 WiFi only; 372 "all in"; 7 of the gold-plated ones; and 4 of the 5-packs, or 20 units. Which totals 1556 units. Now, we need to figure at least 100 will be put out for review and sales samples, but even if it is far more than that it would likely total less than 2000. So all of us who have ordered them at this point should get them from the first batch, no?
Which is more than we knew the last time I can remember this kind of salivating interest: in late 1990, when we were all yearning to get our hot little hands on the GA release of OS/2 2.0. The rumors were crazy (even among IBM employees; I lived near Armonk so I knew a great many of them). The semi-official discussion page was, of all places, on the old Prodigy online service (a joint venture between IBM and, of all companies, Sears and Roebuck, headquartered two blocks from my house), and no tea-leaf reading of celebrity news in the tabloids equalled the speculation on that forum!
(Steve Ballmer at Microsoft said he would "eat a CD if OS/2 ships in 1990." It did, technically, to a couple hundred business clients, but Ballmer did not, as far as we know, eat the CD, though if he did it would explain a lot. Meanwhile, those of us awaiting shipment, many of whom were members of something called "Team OS/2," talked up the nonexistent product and worshipped Lee Reiswig, head of IBM Personal Software Products and nicknamed "The Blue Ninja." And it was the first time most of us ever heard the acronym FUD -- fear, uncertainty, and doubt -- which was what Microsoft, with its puny Windows 3.0 delayed and delayed and delayed, was spreading about our glorious OS/2.)
Every time it got delayed by a few days there would be great anguish and the rumor that IBM had scrapped OS/2 -- which is, actually, the kind of thing IBM would do (ask the XYQuest people. IBM partnered with XYQuest, which had produced the very popular XYWrite, to create "Signature," a GUI version of the program, then discontinued it
three days after launch; IBM survived but XYQuest didn't) -- but by late January the new OS/2 had been seen in the wild, though no stores were stocking it. I finally went knocking from door to door at various IBM buildings in and around Armonk and found one lone copy, which had been given to some department that had no interest in it, and a guy who sold it to me for full retail price, in cash, which I'm sure he kept.
There's a moral to the story, but I'm not sure what it is unless it's that we should be glad that the Gemini isn't an IBM product!
(And to nudge this post back onto topic, sort of, I did ultimately get OS/2 to run on a tiny computer, a Zeos Contenda with a 386/25 chip and 4 megs of RAM. Never could get it installed on the Toshiba Libretto, though, because there was no driver for a PCMCIA floppy on the install disk. So the Libretto was a Linux machine -- even so, I had to pull the hard drive and do the install on another machine.)
I'll be quiet now.
