BTCFGPA BFL and Avalon companies have produced and supplied FPGA

you will see all sorts of opinion on this forum - from full time trolls to smart people that talk sense and everything in between - welcome to the forum

well when you compare 1 x 54Ghash asic device for $1069 to 2 ATI HD 7970 GFX cards for $4-500ea and 1.4Ghash output. It doesn't seem high for a piece of "machinery". In fact for that hashrate it is very cheap compared to anything anyone has mined on before

"ever" is a long time - I expect my bASIC to pay for itself before then I would be comfortable with 12 -18 month ROI.

like previous post, do your research , make your own decisions - in a lot of ways ASIC are a gamble - are you a gambling man?
i.e.: Block reward halves, difficulty skyrockets price of BTC does???
despite all the expert opinion no-one on this planet has been involved in a blockchain based cryptocurrency whose reward halves approximately every 4 years - it is all speculation and best guess on what will actually happen in the Bitcoin mining scene over the next 6 months