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With Core One, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Dies

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106 points iancmceachern | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 20:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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daft_pink ◴[20 Nov 24 21:16 UTC] No.42198205[source]▶
Bambu obviously killed it.
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longtimelistnr ◴[20 Nov 24 21:27 UTC] No.42198291[source]▶
I follow 3d printing pretty close but can't claim to be an expert. With that said, I truly thought they served different consumer segments with the only overlap being those who bought a Prusa pre-assembled beleving it to be a one stop shop machine. Bambu is a black box from China for an end user with little knowledge or care of maintaining a machine themselves (down to printing replacement parts)
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1. Kirby64 ◴[20 Nov 24 21:38 UTC] No.42198375[source]▶
Prior to Bambu, prusa was as close as you could get to “put it together and it’s ready to print” including printer profiles and such. Bambu did this cheaper and better, and much faster, so basically took that entire market from Prusa.

For anyone that wants a printer that “just works”, there’s little reason to choose Prusa over Bambu at this point.

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2. kiba ◴[20 Nov 24 21:48 UTC] No.42198470[source]▶
Prusa grew up with the market. Their printers sold very well, that I had to wait for quite awhile for my (MK4) kit to get delivered.