The Dewalt looked good in the store but I've been a little disappointed.  The machine needs a soft start on the motor to keep it from jumping when you pull the trigger.  Once I learned to maintain an iron grip, I realized that the mark that is supposed to indicate the height of the cut from the fence (or sole plate) is much too far off to be useful at all.  Most of the time you don't need to use the mark - if you just maintain reference surfaces carefully, all will align ok - but sometimes one has to use the marks and on this machine the marks aren't accurate at all.  Having to make complicated setups and test cuts sort of overcomes the purpose of the machine - which is to increase speed.  Finally, on my machine, I notice that when using the sole plate as the reference, actually the aluminum casting extends below the sole plate, so that the sole plate doesn't sit flat on the reference table.  Yes, it can be fixed with a (substantial) bit of filing.... but having to go to this extreme on a new tool, which may not be the most expensive but even so certainly isn't cheap, doesn't seem reasonable to me.