Seriously, I could care less exactly how many watts this thing uses - as long as it doesn't catch fire or melt itself as far as I'm concerned it is good to go! Get in production and ship me mine! Wasting a few more KW/H per month matters much less than the ramp up of difficulty that is going on now.
Typical noob. Don't care about power consumption just ship me my BFL magic box with lephrechauns gold and rainbows.
They missed their power mark by a huge factor and that doesn't phase you? Shit then they may as well have shipped gpu based mining equipment to satisfy your insatiable need to be fucked. Lol
What was the power mark for the demonstrated 5GHs unit that the missed by a "huge factor"?
BFL was peddling their fairy tale(lie) 1w/Gh/s across their entire product line for months. Kind of a big deal when you originally sell a product you claim does 4.5Gh/s @ 4.5w and then say you'll ship a product that does 5Gh/s but uses 6-7x that amount of power. These things won't be profitable nearly as long as was originally projected due to much higher power consumption, which makes it even more painful that they're 6 months late and counting.
That being said... I think most miners don't give a rats behind how much power their asic miner uses (within reason) as long as it gets the hash rate what they want.
They may not care now, but if they don't receive their frankenminer for a few months they'll certainly care then as it's power consumption that determines how long mining equipment remains profitable. Josh and others attempting to pretty this turd up by saying it's still more efficient than Avalon are ignoring the fact that Avalons are real products that real miners are really using right now.