Short version: my Bambu Lab P1S has well over 1,000 hours of print time on it, and it hasn’t had a single significant issue. It’s been a great deal from day one, and at around $399 now (it’s dipped as low as $349 on sale this fall, down from a $699 launch price), it’s an even better one. The P2S is the newer printer, but for most people the P1S is still the one I’d buy. ...
Bambu’s P1S pricing has stopped pretending to be a sale. The $699 MSRP is still printed on the product page with a line through it, but the actual price has been $399 through Black Friday, New Year’s, June, and again right now. That’s the price. The strikethrough is decoration. I’ve got about 1,200 hours on my own P1S at this point and it’s still printing like it did in week one. That’s worth stating up front, because it colors everything below: I’m not comparing spec sheets from the outside, and I’m also not neutral. The machine earned its keep. ...