I have kind of a lot of dewalt stuff (drill, reciprocating saw, track saw, sander, multi tool, router, table saw, shop vac) and the only issue I've had was with their cordless shop vac. I have an older right-angle drill with the old style batteries and I don't have any complaints with that either. Did I choose to commit to dewalt? Not exactly, but once I had a few of their batteries it seemed silly to get other tools that require different batteries. I know there are adapters. If I could start over I'd probably go with Makita or Milwaukee. I do have a corded Makita jigsaw, which is nice.