Dewalt or Makita 18v combi drill?

[absolute0]

My current Dewalt XRP DC925 has just given up and I have some renovation work coming up, so I'm looking for a new combi drill.
I've shortlisted the following with a £150 budget, the dewalt having 1.5ah batteries and the other with 3ah.

Makita BHP456RFWX
http://www.screwfix.com/p/makita-bh...=Search-_-SearchRec-_-Area1&_requestid=244536

DeWalt XR DCD785C2SF-GB
http://www.screwfix.com/p/dewalt-xr...=Search-_-SearchRec-_-Area1&_requestid=244813

Does anyone have any preference or experience in using any of these two?
I've heard that the dewalt suffers from play in chuck, not sure how true this is.


Cheers

 

[ntb]

I don't think you will go wrong with either of them. People seem to get quite tribal about the various brands and automatically promote the kit they use.

If I could try them out I could make an informed choice but without that, I would choose the Makita because of the bigger battery, because some of their kit is made in the UK and because I own some Makita kit already.