Robust American Beauty?

So from an off the cuff comment to a friend's father during a dinner the other day about my shared shop being robbed blind and losing the majority of my tools, I was offered to buy his American Beauty 2hp which apparently he hasn't touched since he bought it (injury forced him out of the shop).

The problems are, I've never heard of Robust before, nor seen one in person or in a store. They look great on their website and the specs are nice, but no one I know (including friend's father) has actually used one. And even with the large discount he would be giving me over retail it is substantially more than a new Jet 16x42 (which is what I had before) which I was hoping to find used or something similar.

I'm just stuck with two questions, is the Robust worth the almost 3-4 times difference in price, and am I getting more machine than I'll use/need. The other problem is my current non-shared shop in-progress has no 220v drops, so I'd need to have one run by an electrician which will add a little bit more.

Thoughts?