Equipment/CNC Router

A 4' x 4' CNC Router, Shopbot or similar

Requirements

CNC Controlled
4' x 4' cutting bed
- It was generally concluded whilst 8' x 4' would be attractive, it had major downsides in terms of floor space and also materials storage and handling - storing and moving 8' x 4' sheets on to a flatbed machine is a pretty impractical task in a full workshop, and certainly not a 1 man job. We concluded we could store a lot of sheet material in 4' x 4' and 600 x 900 for the router and laser respectively (and for general use), making storage much more tractable and avoiding the need to cut down such large sheets.
solid base/gantry (rather than frame)
decent software