I disagree. Yeah, it's plastics only, but that's not really that big of a limitation in my opinion. Now, I've printed a yoda or two (who hasn't?), but where it

I disagree. Yeah, it's plastics only, but that's not really that big of a limitation in my opinion. Now, I've printed a yoda or two (who hasn't?), but where it really shines for me is small things that need a little bit of precision to be good. And yes, I could use a CNC mill an create a lot of my parts and they'd be just as good, probably stronger. The problem is that I live in a studio apartment. Since I don't have a workshop and I don't want to drive to a hackerspace when I want to make something, I'm going to choose not to subject my girlfriend (and preferably not myself) to to the mess and noise of a mill. Plus a printer is so much easier in my experience, I don't need to worry about setting feed rates or replacing bits, I can just click print and go watch TV while it prints. I'll admit there are things that I can't do that I could do with a mill (I would really like to be able to mill circuit boards), but at least to me a printer makes much more sense for the vast majority of lazy stupid people like me.