Well to tell the truth I never particularly wanted VR. Still wouldn't worry me terribly if it never eventuated. The main reasons I upgraded to a MK1 were ethernet - so I could access the thing from my Mac, and the knob. In some ways I still prefer the styling of the MK 1 too, and I never had any alternator noise problems with it - installed and worked straight away :-) (the MK2 install has needed a bit of debugging)

(list 6284, Mk1 S/N 00299 4GB blue [for sale]. Mk2 S/N 080000094 26GB blue)