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I bought Prusa.
I hope to be able to still use the machine in 10 years.
I’m much less confident that BambuLabs machines will be able to do that, than Prusas. This is because of multiple reasons:

There are design decisions of Bambu that I do not trust (bushings on the x-axis on p1 and x1 machines), which track with the decisions of DJI which I didn’t like and where many of Bambus people came from.
I much prefer to support a comparatively independent european maker than a chinese-bank backed one.
I do trust Prusa much more to offer long-term support than Bambu
I prefer to support Open Source, and I do think Bambu is still violating licenses (which imho should not be supported/accepted)
I do not like Bambus AMS design. Their reliability costs quite a lot of filament.

But Bambu has Prusa beat on price for similar performance. By a significant margin.

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HarriPotero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ve had my mk1 kit for nine years. I expect I’ll get another nine out of it before it goes to college.

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grayman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
All great points. I am selling my Mk3 and just got a Mk4. The speed on the Mk4 is amazing. Build quality is definitely better on the Mk4 from the Mk3.

The bamboo is pretty full of thin plastic parts that you can’t print to replace (something I did a few times with my Mk3). The not flat bed thing is weird and tells me they have a manufacturing issue that they worked around in software instead of truly fixing. I really hate the IP theft issue, so that is a deal breaker for me. Ultimately, the printer seems like a decent product but I also don’t trust that it will last a decade.

The only thing I think the Mk4 is missing is a camera / octoprint support, but I can live without those.

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- TheYang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  The only thing I think the Mk4 is missing is a camera / octoprint support, but I can live without those.
  
  Firmware 5.1 enabled octoprint support.
  Not as far as they’d like, but it works. From memory what is missing is some support when Local and Octoprint mix (i.e. when you print locally, octoprint can’t stop the print. Bit annoying but far from a dealbreaker imho)
  
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  - grayman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thanks for the correction!
    
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arc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have a Bambu P1S. I think biggest fear is the cloud stuff goes or gets hacked whereas Prusa prints straight to the machine which is less of a man in the middle problem. I can’t speak of longevity but the P1S is pretty idiot proof as a printer and I like the AMS aside from the needless pooping which is more of a firmware issue - should be a way to suppress purge poops if a person knows they’re using same filament between prints.

As for fragmentation, the X & P range are essentially the same except around the edges - the control panel, supplied nozzle, lidar, camera etc. The A seems like a weird diversion but it has been received favourably and slaughters the Prusa Mini which is getting on in years.

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