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The Meade ACF unit. It's meant to be quite good visually and also from an imaging point of view. The SN will have more coma, and is bigger to handle (not sure on weight). Visually I don't think it'd be as good as the ACF to be honest. The GSO RC is probably equal to the ACF from an imaging point of view (optically), but the GSO wins out on being a faster focal ratio by default. A Focal reducer for the Meade ACF will fix that though. The GSO has a larger secondary obstruction, so you'll lose contrast when using it visually from what I understand. Not what you probably want for visual observing of the planets. The meade's longer focal ratio will probably help with planetary observing as well.
Meade ACF 10" as far as I'm concerned. I'd get the OTA from Bintel and get a decent equatorial mount (if you don't have one already).
Just my honest opinion.
Dave
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