3DPrinting
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First, leave the mini on the current firmware if you enjoy using Orca. Mine is locked to 1.04 and on LAN.
I'm a Prusa fan boy, so I would recommend the Core 1. If I was starting over, that's what I would buy. But there a some other good choices out there.
Qidi often gets over looked, They have the Plus 4 and now the Q2 both can be used with the Qidi box, their ams knockoff.
The Elegoo Centari Carbon has been more good than bad it seems, but it seems there have been complaints about the klipper version it runs is locked so vanilla klipper won't run on it. And Elegoo won't release the open source parts of the code to allow it. YMMV
The new Snapmaker is interesting, but I would be wary until it gets out into the wild and the great unwashed masses start breaking it before I would invest.
Crealty has upped their game, but I'm personally still wary.
How would you rank your choices?
I ranked them pretty much in the order I have them. Snapmaker might be a tiny bit above the Carbon, but it needs to be see yet. It seems Qidi is also making it difficult to run vanilla Klipper on the new Q2. But they have been very good about open software in the past. Owners of the Q2 aren't complaining yet. So perhaps they are just slow. Again, YMMV.
What is really scary is Bambu's new H2 series. Bambu is building a new eco-system with them. And the waiting to be released H2 automatic nozzle changing system is going to break 3D printing I believe. Instead of a traditional tool changer like the Prusa XL or Snapmaker's version, Bambu is going to just swap the nozzles. Which makes for a far more compact and noticeably cheaper system. This appears to be the first real original idea Bambu has designed vs using already developed ideas.
No matter what you think about Bambu's business practices, you need to give them flowers for the disruption of the status quo and then delivering good hardware to back it up. It took several years for manufacturers to catch up with the AMS systems that everyone and their brother offers now. Bambu even got Crealty to up their QC and offerings. And now a new idea tool change system? It's about to get real for the rest of the field.....