they should partner with Umbrel and put Umbrel OS on the Apollo so you could get it all in one device.

Neat timing with my recent write up about my experience with the first Apollo miner.

The specs seem nice for the next version, though the price point seems steep considering the halving is approaching soon

Just another question... here

im glad to see the standard is still an option with the new run of machines :)

I think many folks miss the point of what FutureBit and others like Nerdminer and BitAx are trying to do. I believe their goal is to produce a miner that anyone can buy and use. Right now they are not profitable and as some point out even if a huge number of people bought them and ran them they would not rival the big ops. The point is that you can't just jump to that efficiency or scale without starting somewhere.

Mining is critical and I for one support all of the efforts to make it more pleb friendly. Whether that be a Apollo, S9 space heater, or even these little Nerdminers.

At 10TH/S, you need a million households to purchase one of these miners to reach one exa-hash (EH/s).

Riot says they are expecting to have 20 EH/s by the next halving.

I think for the home-grown model to work, you can't expect people to operate at too large of at a loss. It has to be cheap to buy on a whim, and worth running for a practical reason.

Looks really sexy though.

Up to 10TH/s HashPower? That's lower than an S9, which already doesn't break even when you factor in electricity in most US states (Don't even talk about EU).