Quote from: pekatete on December 25, 2014, 07:24:21 PM

Quote from: Phosphorous on December 25, 2014, 05:20:38 PM

The pricing is public knowledge on their website. We know from the pricing of the S1->S3 upgrade kit that the savings are minimal and are probably negative if you allocate a cost to your time to assemble the thing and it definitely goes negative when you calculate in the cost of the loss of the old miner which could have been sold as well as the loss for the time it take for them to release the upgrade kit (it took them over 2 months (IIRC) to release the S3 upgrade kit), so you lost 2 months of the difference of hashing with an S3 vs. the S1 at a lower difficulty. If you want a project, pursue your upgrades. For Bitmain it probably isn't worth the hassle. I'd rather have them focus on the S6 or S7 than be wasting time trying to save you $5.
Thanks for being the thread troll.

You really are an opinionated nicompoop.
What makes you believe that we are all in this to fall within the constraints of your nifty little spreadsheet on whether we'll make returns and by when? And just in case you missed it, bitmain are actually considering an S1 to S5 kit, so there!

Its being considered as is every product, including S2 to S3 upgrades, S2 to S4 upgrades. It doesn't add any credence to the potential it will turn into a product. The main problem with the upgrade kits is they're expensive per GH to test as we have to assemble them, test, disassemble and reclean. That doesn't translate into unit savings for the customer so the sale price either has to be almost that of a complete unit. BITMAIN is about providing good value to customers, which upgrade kits can't always achieve.