Assembling this and the enclosure was almost child's play. Was a bit surprised at first at how many screws were left, but I guess they will be used with the CNC board and holding bits as I've double checked everything.
Build quality is 5 or even 6 stars, looks and feels a premium product.
Now the not so good experience: coming from NO 3D printing background, trying to get started could do with some guidance - I would imagine this to be a common requirement, that is, if you're an experienced 3D tinkerer already you can get away with using a cheaper 100-200 dollars 3D printer and dealing with all the tweaks needed. For this one, the starting steps are literally 3 images with one sentence each: insert filament, load the software (still mentions SnapMaker3D which either is Windows only or even no longer used as I didn't have that option when I went to the download site on my Mac), and generate g-code.
I've done that, after calibrating the print bed, and for whatever reason it would try to start the print a good 4 or 5 cm above the bed. I've checked all the cables and everything was going to the right place, re-calibrated it, tried again, same thing. This would happen both with g-code files generated from the SnapMakerJs and saved to the provided USB pen drive or using the printer directly via an USB cable.
Eventually I decided to remove the entire thing from the enclosure and try just the printer - same problem. So I triple or fourth checked the connections and all seemed OK but I've disconnected all anyway, loosened the screws on the controller (as I remembered seeing something on the internet about that) and then plugged everything back and it did now finally get a print done, almost perfectly!
Failed to hold the PLA on the bed on one side of the calibration cube, but as the rest did catch on, it did complete a good quality cube (with a slightly dented edge where id didn't catch the bed).
One final criticism: I don't know how much the laser engrav...
