Regrets by sliding table owners?

79” so not sure if it qualifies as “long” being right on the edge :D

I’ve wanted another couple feet only when ripping 4×8 plywood end to end or trying to straight line a really long piece of solid stock (I can obviously still do the plywood with the traditional rip fence, but vastly prefer to be able to use the slider when possible). So yeah it definitely depends on what you make/do there is no simple answer here. If I was doing all plywood cabinets I’d want a bigger saw.

The downsides to the longer slider can I think be summarized to:

- space (pretty obvious :D)

- more supporting hardware fore and aft on the saw body. This gets in the way when trying to use it as a “traditional” saw more. The B3 Winner I have isn’t to bad on this, but the 48” has much less hardware in the road on the infeed side so it would be slightly easier to deal with for some use cases.

My concern on the latter point is perhaps somewhat mitigated by making better jigs & fixtures for the slider, if you are sufficiently clever there is little use for the hardware to the right of the blade.

Are you a pro?