But I have 3 SXK's (all gotten on great deals), all with 60 boards that passed authenticity as having been produced this year, and all three needed a firmware update. I know it's not a huge update, but it is again about the principal of the thing to me. After paying that much for a DNA device I can't update the firmware if I want to?
See this is another point in which I don't think is a huge deal.
Updating the software/firmware.
This is the DNA 60... which is pretty much at end of life and has been for a while...no real updates to its capabilities, most... if not all of the updates are for the color variants 75/250C or to the UI suite, nothing really for the board itself.
I get the whole principle of owning a DNA and being able to tinker with it... but I never tinkered... I just added profiles, there is nothing you can do to find out internal resistance on these mods like you can with a 510 short tool, and besides thermal reads, you only need ambient. You get the charge board, hook it up once, and you're done.
I didn't want to spend to much time at evolv's forum looking for change logs on their UI suites, but I am almost sure of what I said about any significant changes to how the DNA 60 works or updates to the logic they use on the chipsets.
Again, not that I don't think the BB or SXK yippy yadda, monkey butt anything... I actually don't like them anymore...
This is all conjecture really... I have no fight in this whatsoever... I use my Dicodes in power mode, I use my Vt133 (DNA200) in power mode, I used my VT75Nano, Palm DNA75 in power mode... Heck if I bought a DNA250C... I'd probably use it in power mode after getting tired of replay lol... guess what? Don't need to update firmware using power mode lol... that's just a little ribbing there, no slight, just fun