My 2520 arrived Thursday as scheduled... The last one in stock at the dealer. Of course it was after 8:00pm before I got home from work, but I was able to drive it around and play with it for just a bit... Same for Friday. When it was delivered, the rep was quite nice and spent about 1.5 hours with my wife (who is no stranger to mowers and power grounds keeping - we already have a Deere mower). He was good enough to offer nice usage hints and some "what to do if " advice.
I should get some tractor time, tomorrow... It snowed today, but not enough to really try out the blade ( around 1 inch).
I believe I made a good choice. First impressions it extremely is extremely simple to operate and will be extremely useful... Now it is time to get some time on it and start looking at my next PTO implement purchase (will review existing threads for that one)..