Well, after seeing a video from IMTS on this machine it seems like at least one of the issues that the UMC 500 and its big brothers have has been fixed with the 350 design. Keeping the Y-axis in the table instead of the spindle should fix the Y-Axis droop. As long as they didn't mess something up with moving the X-axis to the spindle from the table then in principle it should be more rigid than any of the larger models. I'll still wait to hear what other owners say about it first though. I don't exactly love the idea of being a beta tester on a new product....