You mean you haven’t ordered yet? 
I did immediately, but the kits are being shipped earlier and you don‘t have to deal with the disassembly of the MK4.
I meant if I was able to sell my old printer for 750€, and his wasn‘t even an „S“, I‘d have done that immediately and also ordered the kit. 
Yep - the numbers for me are interesting (in AUD) The kit is $1549 but will have tax applicable so close enough to $1750 - which is a quarter of an XL.
The upgrade is $749, but probably won’t attract tax so that’s a $1,000 saving for me.
Therefore I have to sell the Mk4S for more than a thousand dollars to break even! So the upgrade makes a lot of sense.
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I’d need to get 610€ to break even. I also have it modded for the MMU though and would have to build that back. 
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Soon halfway through march and no news on the kit! The assembled units are shipping in batches, but nothing on the kits - even though the shop item page said “kits shipping in march”.
Update from support:
The kit might very well arrive later than the assembled ones!
I’m pretty sure that means that the first batch will be packaged on the 30th, then they’ll publish the shipping schedule in April. I am still hoping things will have settled down by September, by the time we return from our annual sojourn to the great north lands.
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I didn’t think I needed one, but I printed it, and I now make a habit of running it gently over the print bed before every print because it finds those tiny little dags that happen occasionally from probing, and just whisks them away!
And the web slicer, I don’t think I’ll ever have a use for it, but it works nicely thus far.
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Yeah, it was only about the web slicer. I do have that scraper as well for exactly that reason. 
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I prefer local everything, but if this remains open it could be a great tool.
The latest actions, like changing positions on the warranty seal- and continued open source access to their software- has me at least considering the Prusa core one. It looks like a very well made printer.
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They’d done that already when you voiced your concern the last time. Shall I search for it? 
But yeah, it will remain absolutely optional. They are really trying to drive the point home that they are NOT going to force you to use it.
They also said they’d see how the servers for the web slicer hold up and consider making it a paid service, at least for advanced features, which is totally fine with me, I like to do it offline as well.
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So I arrive home in mid October, I need to order in mid July! Woo hoo!
I wonder if the introductory price will last that long, and how quickly the order backlog will come down? They must be selling a metric ton of printers, and while there’s a bit of whining about the new 20% EU tariff in the US, it does seem slightly better than the tariff on Chinese printers, so perhaps demand won’t drop off at all?
I’ve got no idea, but I am now waiting for the shipping tables to be updated…
The updated shipping table is there… Shipping information | Prusa Knowledge Base
I really have no idea how to figure out the batch number though… They used to have order dates…
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Pretty off topic to discuss bambu labs and no politics, please. But the prusa is going to have a strong competitive advantage against a chinese 3D printer with these new tariffs:
It makes us US customers pay more, of course. And it reduces the pricing pressure on prusa, so it may negatively affect the rest of the world’s consumers too.
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I thought the upgrade was kind of on the expensive side with 489€, but these are the only parts one is reusing from the MK4S:
Everything else is new.
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It’s the printer of Theseus!
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Makes it even more of a bargain really…
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Are you fu… kidding me? -_-
It seems to have been available a few days earlier… Weird, because I ordered immediately after it popped up, or so I thought…
I think there was just a massive surge at that time - Social media still has a few sprinkles of “this is the most terrible printer …” but the reality is that there are already tens of thousands of them chugging away.
At least you have half the wait time you would have if you’d ordered today! 
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The funny hat is out: Make your prints shine with colors! The MMU3 for the Prusa CORE One is Here! - Original Prusa 3D Printers
It’s 39€: Original Prusa MMU3 Enclosed (for CORE One) - Conversion Kit | Original Prusa 3D printers directly from Josef Prusa and I can absolutely live with that. The “light” kit which is open costs 9€…
Lead time are 3-4 weeks, I just added it to my Core One upgrade kit order which was supposed to be sent out on the 18th. So if I am lucky it works out with the three weeks… Otherwise I have to wait a week longer. But not paying shipping twice…
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