Quote from: CanaryInTheMine on July 31, 2013, 03:58:15 AM

Quote from: flipper on July 31, 2013, 03:48:39 AM

My feeling is the Blades will be a lot cheaper than the Eruptor combination. Maybe a little more energy efficient too.

not going to happen. ASICMiner will not miss-price its products to gut one line over another. both product lines should have similar pricing in the long run..

the BE have expensive packaging for 1 asic... the colored finish, mounting on usb stick. and retail packaging. i would assume his cost is close to $5-10 and with the next price drop it wont be heavily profitable to keep selling these much lower than .2btc. on a side note no wonder why asicminer dividends were so high selling these at 1.99BTC with a production cost of .05 - .1BTC

whereas the blades they slam 30-32 asics on a board the cost per asic vs BE is probably 30-40% cheaper production wise and historically the larger units HAVE to be cheaper Hash per $ than smaller units.

my original point was that blades were supposed to be announced 7/10 and due to the delays and BE price drops there will HAVE to be a price drop from the announced price of 9.88/18.88BTC before the first one is even delivered!

one last point is due to the BE drops suddenly undelivered Avalon chips (unmounted bare chips @ $7-9USD) which are slower than BE are going to be too expensive... asicminer is gonna cause a lot of heartburn with avalon and BFL preorders.