I think the option to have both is great, I'd personally take advantage of having a bootstrapped client when downloading to a friend or on my computers. It would make the time to get started that much faster.
Last I checked they were selling for $500 but other retailers are selling them for $750-1000 USD. Due note that custom fees may be applied when importing a miner to your country.
Check Ebay or maybe selling posts on Bitcointalk.org if there are second hand miners for sale. Odds are though that...
Well, it's about 30+% cheaper now then when I bought my single miner, so it's good that the price has gone down.
The chip is of course the important part, and that this asic does 150MHs at 40 Watts. I don't recall how many GPUs that would match up to, but obviously the amount of GPUs would use...
I ordered a miner a while back and it came within a number of days. I think the shipping was less than a week. It works great!
If I understood what you are asking, I usually got 1 dash every 4 days.
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I just wanted to say that I successfully upgraded my older Baikal using OSX and running Win7 in a virtual machine with virtualbox.
There were some tricky parts mainly updating the firmware as one needs to make sure the Windows 7 guest can see the miner with the correct USB...
Glad I stumbled across this thread again. If I wanted to try updating the firmware, how large micro-SD card is required for the Orange Pi?
The image file seemed to be tiny, is 2GB sufficient? I'm not at home so I can't go and check the one currently in use.
Consider writing to them via email, they where pretty fast to respond but the time difference is noticeable. I wrote to them yesterday and got a reply this morning, my local time, so within 24h.