First I need to criticize you a bit, Freequant. Assuming you are being sincere in your questioning and not just lacking the balls to say "I think you are full of shit". Then is the title including, "testing for Dummies" really condusive to getting ones questions answered? And why the need for so much text? It just seems way overdone for just being thorough.

Second though, I am also curious about why the changes in 'plans'. But not from the perspective of any kind of assumption that it implies anything.

Was it BFL or Inaba that changed the venue for meeting one?
Meeting two?
Why?
I too naturally expected that it was Inaba's laptop that I was looking at in the pictures of test 1. And from some of the verbage that mentioned the unit being plugged into the laptop. I am not certain, but don't recall the indentifiers of 'mine' or 'theirs' being present in the text.

  There were more questions in my mind but those and the ones I pressent here seemed meaningless to me at the time. And, I would have assumed anyone else following along would not be so concerned since the final result was that there was still not a unit that was in a ready state for a truely proper test. I do agree testing and reporting should be as complete as is possible. But I also appreciate that as far as we know Inaba is doing this on his own time. For no agreed compensation. And has said nothing to make any intelligent person want to rush out and pay for something they would not do otherwise. I mean, if the intention of being so critical is to help 'protect' the community that's great. But at the same time it also basicly is saying to everyone that they are stupid and not capable of making an informed decision on their own.

  Well, cheers to you both for taking action on behalf of the community whatever the outcome may be.

 
P.S. Fix the freaking "1GH/s, 20w, $700 (was $500)". It comes off as being very purposely biased to everyone who knows you are smarter than that...
The unit was never priced at $500. It was $599. There were pre-orders with a set date at $499. Anyone who ordered by that date has not been asked to pay more money.