Best 3D printer for a beginner (MacOS)?

I’ll add my 2 cents. I have 2 Prusa’s, the MK3 (that I bought as a kit) and the $400+ Mini. They are great machines and I make much use of them. For a beginner low cost printer, you can’t go wrong with the Mini. It is nimble and makes beautiful prints. Along with the slicer that it is tailored to, Prusaslicer, I consider it quite the turnkey system.

My workflow, as a Mac user is, export bodies as STL (in mm) from Shapr3D and Airdrop to my iMac. Load the STL in Prusaslicer and provide print specifics like layer height and filament type and save on an SD card then PRINT!
Good luck.
-Mike

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