It is very unfortunate that BFL is getting publicity over this article - they're a company with a terrible reputation and have treated their customers horribly. I got bitten by the mining bug recently and was stupid enough to almost buy one without doing proper research, until I ran into an issue with checkout. They were ridiculously unprofessional and rude dealing with it, and slow to get back to me, and that was a blessing, as I realized how worthless it was in the end.<p>What it's probably not going to say in this article is: People have been waiting to have one shipped to them for over a year. Use a calculator to find out how much lost profit that is. If you buy one now, or even if one is shipped to you in the next few months (unlikely, unless you ordered it 10 months ago), it will be basically worthless due to more and more ASIC hardware coming out on the market.<p>If you must go into mining, check out some of the custom Klondike K16 Boards that are being developed. These will be shipped much faster than anything BFL ships out, but even then you're looking at a few months lead time, which could be significant in terms of increasing difficult and return value.