[gertlex]

Yeah, but you can use those Makita batteries to power a lawn mower, or a microwave! (I'm not joking) (specifically 18V; there's also a smaller hand drill from Makita with 12V batteries that I have too)

My take: The situation could definitely be better, but it's also pretty nice compared to the NiCD days of 20 years ago.

Caveat: I only just got in on the battery powered tools game in the past 6 months. I went corded for a long time after being burned too many times as a kid wanting to use dad's hand drill once every several months, and the batteries being dead.

[anfilt]

More like over 40 years ago for NiCD. Makita has been making cordless tools since 1978. Funnily they still sell those batteries for those old tools today.

But yea they did just announce a micro-wave.