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After 40,000 Whistles, a Printer Reviewer Finds Something Worth Recommending
· New York time
After printing 40,000 whistles, a Verge reviewer says the Bambu Lab P2S Combo is the 3D printer they would buy for themselves. The fully enclosed machine has a touchscreen and automatic loading, and the reviewer calls it one of the few models they can readily recommend. The review lists a sale price of $649. A test involving that many whistles is not a typical household shopping scenario, but it gives the recommendation an entertaining scale. Most prospective buyers want to know whether a printer will make a useful object without turning every weekend into a negotiation with plastic. Automatic loading and an enclosure address some of the practical friction that can make a hobby feel like an unpaid maintenance job. The reviewer's enthusiasm is still one person's assessment, not a guarantee that a printer will fit every budget or project. Its appeal is that it makes a complicated process look more approachable. The larger joke is that the industry has spent years promising to put a small factory in every home, and the convincing pitch may simply be a machine that behaves like an appliance. Once it does, the owner can move on to the important question: how many small plastic objects constitute a reasonable first project?
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