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RAS you're experience may vary but... I worked in a shop with a 20" 7.5 HP DeWalt, so I'm not talking from an amateur perspective. A few of the things we did with it, I don't know how one could do any other way. The travel was long so that we could cut a custom miter on a piece of counter top. And not be stuck with the 45 degree cut from the factory. And again because it was a true industrial machine, it held angular accuracy to better than one degree. So for that application there is nothing better. But I have no knowledge of smaller RAS. It did get a lot of respect

I'm not quite sure where I fit into this. I have an old (1953) Shopsmith as my principle tool system. It is a 10ER and the owner had to build its bench. And while it is definitely too heavy to be called a bench-top tool, it is very portable because of the casters. So it's a little like a floor model machine that has the portability of a bench-top.