Waiting for Claymore to drop a new version of his miner feels alot like waiting for him to find a cure for cancer but by the time he finds it, all the cancer patients are dead.  If Optiminer is truly faster, then we are at a disadvantage.  I know the faster miner just raises the difficulty level and it all evens out, however, it also levels the playing field with the other miners.  Feels like the discussion on this message board has died over the past few days.  I only check it to see if the improved miner has landed.  I know this is Claymore's livelyhood and he is just as interested in an improvement as I am.  Would love to see a new miner to make it a bit exciting again.