What I think Paladin69 is trying to say is that HF has clearly showed us that is really outstanding from other asic manufactures by having nice contracts with the best factorys out there, the MPP , having the software prepared in andvance...but we are really close to what they marked as "time to ship" the units and we still havent seen any photo. Not the case, not the pcbs, not even any other part as the cooling solution that they have been simulating with. For the moment as a customer I want to believe
I saw what you wrote earlier so I screamed at them earlier today. They promised me they will have pictures for you soon.
I'm surprised more haven't been screaming for actual photos since you're close to Oct 20th.
We are not screaming for actual photos because we are not KnC FUD-spreaders like you and Puppet. Anyone can click on the "last posts" in the profiles of both of you and see that you are heavily shilling for KnC in their thread, and came here to spread FUD. Unlike KnC who are assembling their products in empty warehouse, HashFast has contracted the factory which will assemble and deliver all 500 batch #1 machines in half a day. Since they have 1200 units capacity a day, they will be probably be over with batch #2 on the first day of production before going home for dinner. Have KnC assembled their batch #1 now, two weeks later? I thought so. Since HF stated it will take 5 days from receiving chips to production day, it makes no sense to ask for pictures of chips since they aren't any, they should be in HF headquarters on 26-27th October for delivery to be in October. Asking for photos before that date makes no sense.
I am a KnC customer but I'm not really a fan of anyone. I haven't exactly been posting cheerful things in the KnC thread either...I have a bad board in a Jupiter and am having problems reaching customer service. Call me a FUD'er if you want, but I am just trying to wake people up to the realization that the difficulty is going to run away from everyone. Nobody here will be happy. MPP won't mean squat when they deliver so late. The difficulty is going to be 3-4 billion by April. I only like KnC a bit more because they offer refunds. I'm not sure if that is true with HashFast.
Good luck.