: As to the saw- technology aside- in Fine Woodworking tests the saw
: itself does not perform as well as the Unisaw or Powermatic, and
: it was priced higher the last time I looked. Anyone dropping
: that kind of cabbage on a table saw is not an amateur and knows
: how to safely use a saw, so it had better have a qualitative
: performance difference or those customers won't buy. The person
: who most needs the technology is not going to shell out Unisaw
: bucks, they're going to buy a $200 saw from a box store.

They have a SawStop at the art school my daughter went to, and it seems to me that might be a valid application - they need a good saw, but some of the operators will be novices. She says that in one semester it clearly saved one student's finger, but that another student activated it by dripping sweat!

Will