like i said earlier in the other thread:-

some people like Holden, some people like Ford
some people like Intel, some people like AMD
some people like celestron cats, some people like mead cats.
my astro club have both mead and celestron.......meah

I like the Mead range, but I may get a celestron as my dealer has some killer deals on them and the differnce is small enough to sway me.

Food for thought:- I purchased a skywatcher 102 mak and put it on an ioptron cube goto mount with which i'm using the skywatchers base and legs (ioptron base and legs are a bit flimsy) and found it was the perfect combination. This has turned out to be one fantastic up and go goto system with gps, 80,000 object tracking (probably will never use, but the dealer gave it to me for the same price as the 40,000- version) The maksutov ota has excellent optics and does the job for the most part. definatly a great alternative to lugging around my 10".