I'm not a professional, I'm a do it yourselfer. I do a lot of work around my house, my sister's house and my daughter's house. I'm a strong believer that quality tools are always worth the extra money over cheap tools. I have various power tools by Milwaukee, Bosch, Porter Cable, Makita, Delta, Powermatic and Hitachi. About 10 years ago, my daughter bought me a Ryobi drill/driver set. It's not what I would have chosen, I had a Ryobi BT-3000 table saw once and even though I built myself a set of kitchen cabinets as well as many other projects with it, it was just not made for the amount of work that I asked of it. I used the Ryobi drill/driver set a lot. I can't complain about how it held up, but finally the batteries are shot and I didn't want to buy more Ryobi batteries. I bought myself this DeWalt set "for Christmas". Compared to my Ryobi set the Dewalt tools are more compact, more solid feeling, faster and more powerful.