Are ASIC's shipping?

[Leprechaun93]

All my computers have bad mhash/s rates, so I was thinking about getting an asic miner. But I was wondering if they're shipping yet or still in pre order stages. Has anyone got one? I thinking of ordering the one below.

https://products.butterflylabs.com/homepage/4-5gh-bitcoin-miner.html

[kicker049]

Last update: https://forums.butterflylabs.com/bfl-forum-miscellaneous/1506-update-28-march-2013-a.html

[Gator-hex]

Butterfly labs has big problems

this is their engineering video posted on Youtube yesterday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C4bgho5JSI

It looks a loooong way from being a shippable product.

Avalon are shipping but are asking crazy money 88 to 101 BTC, and they only take payment in BTC!

[Leprechaun93]

Interesting, from the first post it almost seems that they are a few weeks from being shippable. But if not, what would be my best option right now to increase my hash rate?

[Gator-hex]

it almost seems that they are a few weeks from being shippable.

They've been a few weeks from shipping since October 2012!

The video shows they don't even have an ASIC capable of mining yet.

They're talking about maybe shipping 30Gh/s Little Single units running at 2-3x power design.

Every other product will be so far outside it's power spec it'll need a complete redesign!

The mini Rig would blow the fuses on your house power box,
there's no way the Jalapeño will run on a USB power brick,
the 60Gh/s Single will be so hot with 8 chips close together that it'll melt itself.

[Leprechaun93]

Good point, i'll have to find a better option for now or stay at 22MH/s

[b1ackha7]

Time to start looking for some refurb video cards, or maybe think about litecoin until you can get a ASIC.