They are adding a bit more features to the A500v2 version. Dunno if the shape will change and there is an A2000 cpu slot adapter if I remember correctly. It will have everything on the current vampire including the IDE and more ram and some other undisclosed features. (I would hope it would be networking or some kind of clock port thingy)
The current Vampire2 500 seen in videos and forum posts is now classified as a developer or Apollo team version and wont be released into the wild and will be retired.
Vampires also come in BLACK EDITION options with a faster FPGA about 20% faster than the standard Vampire 2's.
If all goes well orders can start going out or at least START being processed by late 2016.
Order method will not be the same as the Vampire 600.
No locked hardware pay to play schemes. What you buy is what you get and very reasonably priced due to low overhead.
I got all this info from hanging out in the Vampire team IRC chat.
