You may well be correct - I have no experience with either of those brands. I've certainly heard of and read about Festool products, but they are 3 or more times the cost of perfectly adequate tools in many cases - I've never seen any of them in use. Not many tradesmen (none that I know) can afford to give $1500 for a festool miter saw when a Bosch is $500, and DeWalt is $300 - no matter how many tricks it can do. Carpentry just doesn't pay that much around here. Also this - I have several DeWalt tools that are still servicable after 10+ years of commercial use. Even if they Are junk. You see an awful lot of them on job sites.