As it happens I put those two vids up just so that you could see the difference in styles of tool available. Neither was meant as a recommendation, although both saws have their merits.
The Makita MLS 100 has come up in a few of my searches. Interested to hear your views on this.
About 10 or 11 years back I actually had one for a few years as a second, lightweight saw - it was/is far smaller/lighter than the big old Makita LS1013 10in SCMS I had at the time. It ended up being my "go to" saw for quite few years until I replaced it by the deWalt DW771 I still have as my "go to" saw. The fact is it had sufficient capacity for about 75% of the cuts I was making at the time (e.g. smaller skirtings, architraves, dados, stud work, mouldings, hand rails, etc), and it was smaller and handier to use than the bigger saw - light enough to drag around from place to place on site without giving myself a hernia. Even after I replaced it for wood cutting I did keep hold of it for a while for those jobs where I needed to do a lot of cutting of aluminium and heavy plastic profile sections. It was cheap (ex-demo, just under £100, was offered £70 for it when I sold the beast) and it eventually found a good home with one of our apprentices who was nearing the end of his time. It has since found a third owner.
On the plus side: relatively low cost, reasonable amount of power, blades easy to source at a reasonable price (250mm diam. x 30mm bore - lots of surplus Bosch, DW, Freud, Makita, etc stuff on eBay as well as Dart or Saxton so no need to buy Silverline carp), solid cast base, comes with a dust bag and left/right extension supports, cheap parts readily available (still in production, see
Makita web site for details, including a down-loadable manual), solid machine - doesn't feel plasticky
Against: screen printed mitre scale hardly the best (mine wore out and had to be replaced, but at least it was cheap), bevel scale a bit on the small side (common issue), dust extraction not brilliant (a common fault with mitre saws), no trenching facility (not an issue in my opinion, but if I don't mention it somebody will), fence awkward to adjust if it's knocked out (but accurate enough once you get it right - I resorted in the end to leaving it be and fitting a plywood sub-fence which could be adjusted using veneer shims), not quite the fit and finish you get on Japanese-made Makitas (made in PRC, but still better than many DIY saws I've seen), still fairly large and heavy in comparison to an 8-1/2in/216mm sliding compound mitre saw such as the DW773/DWS774. It would have been nicer if the mitre range went a few degrees further either side than 45 degrees, but that's a minor niggle
In general the saw did what I asked of it. My advancing age (yes, I'm that old) combined with the need for mobility around a site and a sightly greater crosscut capacity (the MLS is limited to 75 x 50 in a single cut [
Edit: that should read 120 x 75mm at 45° bevel, oops!], but can crosscut up to 150 x 45 by flipping the timber over which is good enough for joists, stud work, etc) eventually persuaded me to go for a smaller, lighter saw with bigger crosscut capacity (a deWalt DW771). Overall not a bad saw, but a little limited in capacity.
Best price I've seen them at recently was circa £150 (and even
Wickes are doing them at that price with Toolstation at £160 - so if you do decide on one maybe worth buying that way as returns are fairly easy should you be dissatisfied)