I worked in a wood shop for 3 years, for my 2 cents I like Dewalt, Bosch, and Delta/Porter Cable best, and think that they all make fine tools. So just get whichever has the features you need, and whatever you can get a good price on. It's all made in China now, it's just a matter of who has better quality control.
Lot's of people like Makita, but our shop had bad luck with a Makita sliding miter saw that would not lock down the angle or height adjustments properly. The angle would always slip, and the height would always slowly fall. We replaced it with a Delta radial arm saw eventually. Could just be one bad model though, we had a couple Makita cordless drills which where bulletproof so IDK.