At least wait until someone gets one in hand and post a review, and if it does work decently well there probably is going to be a long backlog.

Is Apple still doing the extended return window for items receiving around the holiday? I know sometimes they allow items received near the end of November to be returned in January, so in theory if you time your early order right you can use it, test it, and even have some time to play with it before you return it.