Nice! My arborist buddy actually just told me he was thinking of getting a 500i for himself as a Christmas present, maybe with a 32" bar. It seems like a fairly amazing power/weight saw. Glad you love it. Think the Makita 7901 is the only other saw that matches it in that class. Going to upgrade my Makita 6421 one of these days to the 79cc P&C so it becomes one of them.