Short - sweet and to the point...
The Makita is to the Harbor Freight as a unicycle is to a F350 4X4...and/or a Lambo.
I've had a couple of the HF tools for the last few years & really only had a miserable Dremel to compare them to.
Recently, I picked up a Makita cordless as a freebie with the purchase of a three piece set.
I had the occasion to use it the other day to trim a bit of a tongue off a shelf that gets glued in place (refer to the Sommerfeld cabinet system) that's usually trimmed off using a bearing bit on the router table.
All I can say is WOW!
What a difference!
No vibration, laser straight cut. Baby bottom smooth surface left by the tool.
I can appreciate now what the Fein users had been trying to get across.
The HF tool is ok, but, until I tried a much better made tool, I had no idea how crude the HF tool really is.