Purchasing Advice

I have an A1 and I use it for my work as a product developer.

I was thinking of buying a mini to help speed up my workflow but then I read a couple of things that have made the decision less straightforward.

The main thing is that I can see that there are some Bambu Labs launches coming up and if there is going to be a machine that has a larger build volume than the A1 - and under say $500 - I would probably go for that instead.

I have some deadlines coming up so if the launch is still a month or two away, then this is probably too long to wait.

Next, I saw a number of YouTubers are pretty upset about Bambu Labs forcing users to be connected to the cloud. A couple of weeks ago my machine could not print because the server was down and so I am wondering if Bambu Labs is still a wise purchase.