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

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106 points iancmceachern | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 20:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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bmitc ◴[20 Nov 24 21:31 UTC] No.42198318[source]▶
Bambu Labs' quality and feature set is much, much higher and larger than Prusa's, and the price is right. Prusa bet on people wanting to continually fiddle with their 3D printer, but that segment is already niche and likely dying off.
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1. mlyle ◴[21 Nov 24 02:01 UTC] No.42200310[source]▶
The experience I have on MK4 and X1C are similar, as far as reliability, etc.

There's different annoyances for each; if you calibrate each time X1C is slower to get going. X1C is faster overall on bigger jobs. X1C has weird wifi error-out issues more often. MK4 gets a bit more gunk on the nozzle. X1C wastes more filament. X1C had some issues with retracting filament at first that I printed someone else's bracket design to fix, while MK4 just worked. X1C quality seems slightly better with PLA; MK4 does a slightly better job with PETG.

When wear makes major maintenance necessary, it's going to be easier on MK4.