Honestly, I had a HF 18 volt electric drill. Best drill I ever owned until I dropped it about 12 feet on the concrete driveway. Shattered upon impact.
I let my bud talk me into a Ryobi set - drill, saw, sawzall - with two batteries. Very nice tools but the batteries - NiCad - just sucked. And died within the year. Had to buy a Ryobi string trimmer to get the lithium ion battery (was cheaper to buy the string trimmer on sale with the battery than it was to buy the battery alone. Go figure. I needed the trimmer anyway.)
NOW these are good tools. But I swear, when these give out I'm going back to HF.
I let my bud talk me into a Ryobi set - drill, saw, sawzall - with two batteries. Very nice tools but the batteries - NiCad - just sucked. And died within the year. Had to buy a Ryobi string trimmer to get the lithium ion battery (was cheaper to buy the string trimmer on sale with the battery than it was to buy the battery alone. Go figure. I needed the trimmer anyway.)
NOW these are good tools. But I swear, when these give out I'm going back to HF.