For other just sha miners possibly. But with this miner it literally has no competition at release as far as dual miners at this level. Also they have the lowest watt scrypt by far.
It has no competition because Litecoin (much less any other scrypt coin) isn't worth spending money on a miner for at this point given the block reward halfing due any day now (which more than makes up for the current price after the pump-and-dump).
I've never understood the so-called logic behind creating a chip that RELIES on BOTH SHA256 AND Scrypt being worth mining to make the CHIP worthwhile. Risk is more exponential on something like that, not just "double the risk".
The pricing on the unit is totally insane. $800 would be MARGINAL at best on the HIGH side, and that's after factoring in the recent price gouging jumps out of Bitmain on the S5 (and the resulting SP20 pricing jumps). The SHA side is little if any more efficient than you can get out of a pair of SP20s and not THAT much better than the S5. The Scrypt side is little if any better than a Titan at max efficiency for the SFARDS, and not a lot better than the A2.
I've ALSO never been impressed with the BOARD-LEVEL engineering displayed by Gridseed - the blades were just BADLY designed, what I've seen of the Black was little IF ANY better, the orbs were so-so at best. This makes me VERY uninclined to trust a miner UNIT from them - I'm FAR more inclined to trust Jabberwock (sp) as a board-level designer given the record of absolutely HORRIBLE board-level design in previous products out of Gridseed AKA SFARDS.
Given their track record on board-level design, I don't see any significant sales happening to major farmers. Those folks would be more inclined to buy the chips and design their own RELIABLE board-level designs.
Wouldn't be better to buy in summer when prices are low and supply high
Usually true, but the recent small bubble has messed up that theory pretty badly. Perhaps in a month or two after the Greece "bailout" settles out, if Bitcoin pricing settles back down again.