Hello,It's not bad for a home owner/light use. I bought the Firestorm assortment - which had a recip saw.circ saw.sander. and the larger drill for $199.00 a few years ago. It came w/two batteries and a two station battery charger. The batteries have a very short life, both shelf and use time. Replacement batteries ran close to $50.00 back then. I believe they had dropped quite a bit since - yep ad says regular price is about $20. Anyhow to make a long story short - one day we were in Wal-mart and they had the same drill that's in the ad for $59.00, with a single station charger and two batteries. I picked one up simply because of the battery price. I've used it quite a bit as a backup to and in addition to the other one. Just be aware that the battery will lose it's charge quickly just sitting around. You pretty much have to pre-plan your use of the drill to allow for an hour or so of charge time before hand. The strengths of it - low cost, higher quality than the other low quality ones (the ones the close out places sell for ~ $20.00, availibilty of batteries long term. medium power due to the 18volt (mine had more torque than my corded B&D 3/8" drill, handy no tool bit change(I spend too much time searching for a chuck key). Drawbacks, lack of any battery life. low power compared to mid/upper range ones, the no tool bit change design can slip under a heavy load, you can't take it out of the tool box after a week and drill a couple of holes w/out first charging the battery, extremely poor design for holding the battery in place - it uses a small plastic "lip" instead of a post - I ruined two batteries using the sander form the above asortment due to the vibration chewing up the plastic lip. If it's any help, I plan on getting the DeWalt 18 volt for $99.00 to replace the B&D ones. Mine (the B&D) servered me well enough to get through two house remodels. HTH.
