I just bought one for myself, and will probably get a second one at a later date.
We are also taking pre-orders as of today.
X-Desk
The following just sealed it for me:
The cue send can be used as an additional input (assignable to either the tape return or the main I/P) and has a PAN on it (therefore you have gain and pan for an additional 8 channels).
So, this becomes a 16 channel console if you are only using it at mixdown.