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Just remember, telescopes are for looking through, the one that gives the best view is the best scope and the best view is ALWAYS provided by aperture, not by the mount, not by the brand, not by the price tag, only by aperture! And dollar for dollar, dobs give the most aperture per $! And if you are a town or city that applies even more so, you need that aperture to beat light pollution.
Also one of the sayings you come across in this caper is that "the best scope is the one you use the most". My EQ mounted reflector spent most of its time in the loungeroom because I just couldn't face all the fiddling in the dark to see a handful of objects. In the time it used to take me to have a rough polar alignement worked out and then navigated to an object I have setup up the dob, unpacked eyepices, setup the dew heaters, got out table and atlases and probably observed several objects.
This is not to say that the scopes you are looking at don't have their place, but I would bet that more newbies have left the observing caper after being convinced that a EQ mounted refractor is the way to go than for any other reason.
Malcolm
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