The button is indeed fancy. But I’ll caution that if you’re expecting a game changer in terms of power and speed I’m not sure you’ll find that in any of the listed replacements. Ortur will likely be moderately faster in movement due to weight reduction in the gantry but this won’t be a 10x or even 5x speed increase. Optical power between these should be roughly in the same ballpark although I’m sure there will be differences in burn quality and perhaps cutting ability. Just mean it’s not necessarily going to be a night/day difference.
My biggest beef with Atomstack lasers is that they do not allow you to save configuration changes to NVRAM. They let you make some changes but they won’t survive a reboot.
This shouldn’t be a problem then unless you’re attempting light materials. White is basically kryptonite as far as a diode laser is concerned.
This price point makes it just beyond reach for a new laser. You could probably get one on the used market for this price or less. OMTech sells refurbed 12"x20" machines starting at $1500. You might be able to get a new off-brand one for less than that even.
I had meant that you could position the material between the legs and allow the laser to cut it short. But sounds you want to go the full length in which case, yes, you could do it diagonally. You wouldn’t want to do a repositioning with anything that was sensitive to a slight misalignment between burns. If your tolerance was in the .5 mm territory you could get away with that too.