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I recently bought a BambuLab 3D printer.

Designed and made in China.

Right from the unpacking to first print the experience was top Apple-style quality.

Indeed I was agreeably surprised.



Its Apple'esque. The edge are still rough, and I don't trust their sketchy antics. People buy Apple because they earned that trust among their customer base. Is the device better than competitors, in my opinion yes but they are more along the lines of Samsung and not Apple.

Caveat: (Yes I know geeks here will say apple users are just dumb and want a status symbol....they'll never get it)


So was my Prusa and they don't violate the GPL or lock me into their ecosystem.

To each their own I guess.


My comment was not say Prusa is inferior, but just to mention that "Made in China" today is really not like the "Made in China" of the 1970s.

BTW I know nothing about 3D printers, but the Bambulab was recommended to me by a German friend who lives in Germany and is all about open-source ... He had printers since a long time and knows the ecosystem very well.

He told me the BambuLab printer was better for me because less tinkering, and much cheaper, at similar quality... which is what i was looking for.

We both are embedded systems engineers who work with Linux daily, so I trusted him. The results I get from the printer do not disappoint.

However I totally get the Prusa vibe. Just not for my specific use case.

To each his own indeed !




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