They gave me a choice of ripping some 2x SPF or a 1″ oak board. The guy doing the demo said that way you could get your hand in there safely to push the material through, but I still think that’s way too close. What this does is move the fence away from the blade when you are ripping thinner materials. What’s new, or at least I can’t find this feature on any other Dewalt saw, is that the flip down support has a second position that allows it to be down over the table. It is meant to support the work piece by the fence when the fence isn’t over the table. This has been incorporated into Dewalt jobsite saws for a long time. The last feature that I found interesting was the flip-down work support. Possibly you could fit a pair of box joint cutting blades onto the arbor, but it’ll be interesting to see if Dewalt says anything about that. I did get a chance to look at the arbor of the FlexVolt saw and there is really no way you could fit a dado stack on it. Maybe he was thinking of the DW745 ( $299 via Amazon), which does not have dado capabilities.

Plus, there’s a dado plate available for my DW744 saw. Interestingly, the Dewalt employee at the demo refused to officially admit that my DW744 table saw had dado capability even though they show you right in the manual.

Maybe we’ll see a full-size 10-inch cordless table saw join the 120V Max lineup.r

Plus, it takes less power to turn the smaller blade. The rationale here is that most users only need the capacity of an 8-1/4″ blade, making the saw smaller than a 10″ saw would have to be.

Dewalt flexvolt table saw