I used a Cutmaster A40 for about 3 years. I'm glad I got rid of it. I built a new machine and put a Powermax 45 on it. It's worth its weight in saved consumables.

I'm getting anywhere from 5 to 10 times the life out of consumables now. The thermal dynamics machine ate consumables like popcorn. Everything else about it was fine, I guess, but it cost too much to run it.

Anyway, at one point I asked everyone what I should get and they all said Hypertherm ... and they were right.