bfg miners - should we buy them?

[ronnymil]

from some reason BF labs do not deliver the goods.
will they make it?
and if they do - will the difficulty be so high it will not be worth the price of the miners?

[TheRealSteve]

BFL is supposedly delivering now - as to whether it's worth it, there's a reasonable (once you look past the mudslinging) discussion over in:
Bitcoin Forum > Bitcoin > Mining > Hardware > Custom hardware > Received BFL Jalapeño Today!
tl;dr?  The general consensus for those having bought early is 'no'.  For those buying one now, you can probably make your money back; this of course depends on the exchange rates.

[0150r]

I think buying now vs buying with bitcoins back when the orders were first being taken is a much better outcome. Having to pay hundreds of bitcoins (when the value was low) could be worth thousands today if you held on to them. Buying now means being lower on the list, but I don't think that you'd be able to make up the thousands you'd have in on it though.

[TheRealSteve]

My main concern with an ASIC is that, while blindingly fast and efficient, it only does 1 job.  An FPGA is going to be slower, but they're also cheaper and when you're done with it, you can sell it off again or reprogram it yourself to perform a different task.  A lot of people who are currently into Arduino and the like will be coming of age and looking at FPGAs sooner rather than later and would probably be happy to take it off your hands.

[kevinmyers80]

from some reason BF labs do not deliver the goods.
will they make it?
and if they do - will the difficulty be so high it will not be worth the price of the miners?

I believe that if they are not available in the short asic people who do a lot of mining will be less because the difficulty will be too high