[Savage GT]

The Ender 3 V2 Neo has done a good few bits for me, but even though its not used daily, after a couple of years there are problems, The temperature sensor for the nozzle has been intermittently wayward for nearly a year, and the SD card reading has become unreliable, even corrupting a card so much I needed to reformat it in the PC several times.

As I approach another railway build where I will be wanting more stuff printing, I thought I should invest in a new one. At first I was going to stick with Creality despite the short lifespan of my unit, but after ordering an Ender V3 , I had my eyes opened to Bambu. After some research I decided to cancel the Creality, and ordered a Bambu A1 in their anniversary sale, along with a 0.2 and 0.8 hot end. price was comparable to what the Ender 3 cost me 2 years ago.

It arrived yesterday so assembly and a few ready made prints to start, and then a couple of my own designs.
I am blown away by how much things have moved on in 2 years !
I expected a little faster , but this is crazy watching it fly around, and add to that all the convenience, sending files over wi-fi to the printer direct from my PC, firmware updates likewise, and the prints, despite the speed, are far crisper. Colour me impressed with Bambu 

The assembly was a little more involved than the Ender was, but all clearly explained (read instructions as most of the you-tube videos are a little outdated ... they have changed one or 2 bits around since the model was initially released). But as far as a "Plug and Play" printer is concerned - for someone like me that wants the print to be the goal, not tinkering and tweaking to get it, it is perfect. 
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend to someone who wants their first printer, or indeed to add to their farm !

I only bought the single filament input version as its all i need, but they also do a 4 colour/filament spool version.

[Kevan]

That's why I eventually replaced my Ender with a Prusa, I wanted a tool to make 3D prints, not a 3D printer to spend more time fiddling with to make it printable and tweaking before and during printing.

Glad you're happy with your Bambu.

[chappyman66]

Things have definitely changed in the last couple of years.

Congratulations on the Bambu, you will like it I am sure.

[JMay]

I also went from Creality to Bambu (P1P in a sale) and never looked back, the P1P is faster (bodyshells in under 5 hours instead of 10-12), better quality and more reliable. The Creality printers were good entry level printers some 6 years ago on price, quality and reliability but there are better entry level printers in the last few years that have come down to the Creality entry price level and are just better all round like the Bambu A1.

My Creality printers (Mini & CR10S) went through fans, fan ducts, heater elements, nozzles, drive belts, filament pushers, filament PTFE tubing, on a far too regular basis where as the P1P is still on its 1st hardened nozzle, and every other part that the Creality seem to use as a consumable. P1P reliability wise over the last 2+ years has been faultless, just regular maintenance to clean the magnetic sheet, remove stray bits of filament and clean the movement rods.

The only issue I have had was self inflicted after I enclosed the printer, the chamber heated up to the point where PLA got too soft to feed and jammed. Removing the top cover for PLA, allowed the chamber heat to dissipate curing the problem.

Modifications so far to the P1P was going to a hardened nozzle, enclosing the frame to do ABS and adding the Bambu large bellows feet.

Cheers
John