Re: Avalon going to cut into BFL customers pocket books?
I can put in an order for (possibly) $350 and upgrade my units up to 90Gh/s. Do you think BFL will ramp up their small box/clamshell configuration to run up to 90Gh/s?
Looks like it's $500. So $2000 for 90GH/s. Same cost and H/s as a BFL single + little single + raspberry pi to run them, and BFL's two units still take up less space and use less power than the non-upgraded Avalon.
If BFL ships, Avalon will be just barely keeping up with BFL in H/$ and still way behind in H/J.
Because people would still be willing to pay more once they know what it is they are getting.
Okay, say I want to buy a device for mining, and I want it to remain profitable for at least a year. That means I am looking for a device with the following features:
- mining
- low power
Sure, Avalon could have some extra awesome feature, but unless that feature increases mining (maybe it sees the future so it knows which nonce it will be without hashing?) or reduced power (maybe it includes 16 100W solar panels to keep the unit online for free?) then the unit is not going to be superior than a boring competing unit which does the same mining for 1/4 of the power.
I 'll ask you later on if you are still thinking along the same lines. (Don't worry, I know it won't make sense to you until later.)
Yes, I'm still thinking along the same lines. (If it wasn't obvious, I meant "increase mining without making the power usage even worse".) They've effectively allowed you to buy 1/3 of a second unit. This is useful for people who have $2000 but not $3000, space for 4U but not 8U, and free power. "Serious" miners will be getting multiple units anyway (and 4 normal units is as good as 3 upgraded units).
The only undeniable advantage is that Avalon has shipped and BFL has not (and that's a pretty fucking big one), but this has nothing to do with the magic feature.