I received my A1 mini on 8/22 and just passed the 1000 hr mark early this morning. That is an average of almost 13.5 hours of use per day since I received it. And this is just for fun, not a production environment where it is running non-stop.
I have enjoyed my new hobby!
I should probably add that I have had probably 95%+ fully successful prints. No major problems that created a big mess, just a couple of times where I had a nozzle clog (wood filaments) and a few times where I had an adhesion problem that was taken care of by a good scrubbing with Dawn dish soap.