Ok, lets deconstruct this a minute. BFL has stated that our chip is a custom ASIC, end of story. That's what it is. bASIC is a Cell Based ASIC, which is another name for a sASIC for all intents and purposes. So we have a parity there; we've both stated what our chip is.
What's the difference between the your custom ASIC and sASIC? I understand the answer may be proprietary, my understanding currently is, BFL ASIC is cheaper than bASIC from $/gH stand point.
A cheap low powered netbook will work well for this. You dont need a lot of cpu power and 2gb ram is plenty. Connect to a usb hub if you need more ports.
I understand we haven't seen the design yet. If we were going to use the laptop, how many USB ports do we need? Each SC will take a USB port?! Can we join SCs together?