I bought the 8” Cutech a couple of years ago after doing a lot of research, and I love it. At the time it was the only one that had the additional fence supports to prevent flexing, but from reading some of the comments here that might have changed. I think that’s important for the small jointers with an aluminum fence.
I never owned a jointer before and it’s so much easier for face jointing than my planer sled. The length of the bed is a limitation as others have pointed out, but for the projects I build it’s sufficient. For anything over about 4 feet, I still use my tablesaw with a simple sled for edge jointing.
Here’s my setup on a flip top cart with my planer on the other side.
