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As someone who ordered back in August 2012 and received his 2 jalapenos a week ago I can say I'm still very happy with my order. I wouldn't advise someone to b
by gigq 13y ago
As someone who ordered back in August 2012 and received his 2 jalapenos a week ago I can say I'm still very happy with my order. I wouldn't advise someone to buy into it now as this article doesn't do enough to explain the geometric rise in difficulty will most likely make it difficult to recoup costs on the hardware by the time an order made today ships. BFL estimates they will clear the backlog of orders by September of this year, but their estimates are notoriously bad so take that with a grain of salt.
These units don't perform worse than what I originally ordered, in fact they hash at a rate that is 24% higher than what I ordered (5.6GH/s vs 4.5GHs). While it is true to say they use more power than promised as they were originally going to use 5 watts and instead use 30 watts saying they perform worse AND use more power is misleading.
- cupcake-unicorn 13y agoI thought it was fairly sleazy of them to offer the hashing "upgrade" for 100 dollars when from what I can understand it's a firmware only thing, and should have been done for free for forcing people to wait anyway. Do you feel angry at all that you lost so many months of potential income?
- gigq 13y agoBack when I bought my jalapenos they were only $150 and I chose not to do the upgraded pricing to 7GH/s for $100. The speedup I was referring to was simply a bump in the base model from the original 4.5GH/s specs to what the units I received actually ran at. Given that the units have almost paid for themselves in one week it's hard to be upset about any lost income. On the other hand I still have only received part of my order and am waiting on multiple 60GH/s units that are just now starting to ship to people who ordered in June 2012. Depending on how long it takes them to get to my order I may have some regrets I didn't just order all jalapenos instead.