Yeah it is risky, but if these things pan out with production near target, or even half of what target is, people not on the wagon who are mining now are going to be screwed royally.  This will be the only real viable product to mine with, and if rumors are true, everyone and their mother will get one.  Think the wait list is bad now on say a weekly production of 100 units, imagine after they come out and make GPUs paper weights!  GPUs will be worthless with a massive flood on ebay, and have to wait forever to get a ASIC unit.

Even if the hash production is say that of a 5830, still not that bad of a product.  Performance of a 5830 using what is it, 2watts of power and not that much more money.  Plus I can still keep my GPUs and double my hash rate. :-)


From what I have been reading around, I don't get how they can make these available in October when from what I read, that is when the silicon will be shipped to them. Seems like the turn around should be a little longer unless they expect to have zero issues with silicon, pcb, and other components.  Either that, or those first on the top of the list are going to have a higher chance of having a bad unit.