I was reading an article this morning about it. Does anyone have or use one? It looked interesting and has me thinking about it. Or is this one of those things I would regret getting after. Thanks

What would you want to do with it?

If you buy a cheap Chinese crap unit, do you have 'mad electronics and software and fabrication skillz' so that you can upgrade it to fix the built-in flaws, or repair it when it breaks? Or else be prepared to pay a lot for a decent one.

I bought a $300-ish K40-ish cheap Chinese crap unit. I do have 'mad electronics and software and fabrication skillz'. I am planning to upgrade mine, and I am also prepared to repair it if and when something breaks.

My goal is to do "maker movement" stuff such as prototyping for some product development ideas that I am pursuing. It should do pretty much exactly what I want it to do, which is mainly marking and/or cutting of 3mm thick baltic birch plywood and various other thin materials.

If you happen to have a nearby "makerspace" community workshop, you might want to check to see if they have a laser engraver/cutter that their members can use, or whether they may teach classes, in order to help you decide whether or not it is something for you.

Thanks thats what I needed.

I just sold my K40 style a few weeks ago. after having a lot of fun with it the power going to the tube arced off the case and messed a ton of stuff up. i installed new controller, PW supply and a few other things. never got it to work right again.
Growing up my parents ran a small engraving company mostly engraving ID#s on small hand tools and parts for defense contractors and a couple of the major commercial airlines. They used an Epilog for laser etching and Xenetech for rotary. If i was to start tinkering again i would go rotary or if i had the funds, i would get a small fiber laser. I don't really care that much for CO2 lasers.

The desktop fiber lasers are not becoming more and more affordable than they once were.  I'm tempted to get one.

I don’t have teh l33t ski11z but I have heard this one is great. Guy on local forum has 2 of them.  I have been looking into buying one for engraving since our local trophy shop is Antigun and the next closest  is 45 to 2 hours away.

https://flux3dp.com/beambox/

I’d like to get something like this someday.  Just for cutting balsa and lite plywood - ply up to maybe 3/16”.  Any ply above that could cut with a CNC Router.
For RC stuff, planes and maybe boats mostly, maybe something like making wooden geared wall clocks, too.
I’ve been thinking it would need to be a 40W tube laser at least.   Not sure if a fiber laser would be up to that task.