Tell me more about the DWC 18-4500

[woodwise]

Seems I may have jumped in a little too quickly...
I have recently installed a couple of privacy fences, and am looking to finish out two basements including hanging a bunch of drywall. A screw gun seemed like it would be a great addition. I did some searching and seemed like Festool had some nice features and good reliability. I even found videos of a guy installing a deck using the DWC 18. I had heard of the 2500 but thought this was the older model, not the RPM.
Searching again, I see a couple of references to the 2500 being preferred for work with timber and the 4500 primarily for use with metal studs. I will not be working with metal studs and I just purchased the 4500 off of recon.

Anyone using the 4500? Do you use it exclusively for drywall? I am assuming it can handle driving into pine studs, but does it have enough power to handle harder material? If I don't keep the 4500 what should I get? Looks like the 2500 is NAiNA.

Thanks and appreciate the input

 

[Frank-Jan]

It doesn't matter if you're screwing drywall to wooden studs or metal studs, but if you want to screw underlayment the lower rpm machine is more suited. The 18v 4500 might be able to do it, I have the old 12v 4000 rpm protool and it can only screw drywall to wooden studs if you use the coarse threaded screws.

If I need to screw underlayment or OSB I use my old corded makita collated screwgun (or shoot them with my bostitch framing nailer with galvanised ribbed nails)

 

[thudchkr]

I use mine primarily for attaching drywall, but did use it when I was attaching CDX plywood sleepers to several ceilings that we were recovering.  Didn't have any real problems when used that way, but I'm sure the 2500 would be a better fit for that task.