It's plenty capable for the small jobs I had in mind when buying. I do not own, nor have I operated, another chainsaw before this, but I would've thought the blade/chain rotation would go in the opposite direction. Meaning, when you're running it and you go to cut the wood from the top of the branch, the bottom of the chainsaw should be moving AWAY from you. This one does not. It rotates toward you, which is disconcerting to say the least. All the debris from the wood is being thrown toward you. You'll want to make sure your legs aren't directly behind it. I mean, I'm not sure it's a big deal and it cuts it just fine, but I'm definitely knocking a star off for that. Also, it's a bit finicky to readjust the tightness of the chain rather frequently (usually every 20 or so cuts).
I've done two cutting sessions over the last coupe weeks where I used it on around 50 cuts, give or take, some up to 2.5 inches thick. I still haven't gotten through the first battery, so I'm very happy with that aspect. Having to put oil on the chain every now and then is a bit of a pain, but it's not a problem once you understand how to do it. That leads me to my final major complaint. The instructions/guidelines are ... complete gibberish. It was clearly written in mandarin and then auto-translated or something. Half of the sentences literally do not make any sense in english. Even the punctuation is a disaster. It's honestly comical how terrible it is. The ONLY way I knew how to do anything was to go to youtube and see other people talking about similar chinese mini-chainsaws.
All that said, I think it was worth my money, but I paid 1/4 of the list price because of a sale coupon. I definitely would not pay more than $40 for this. There's so many chinese no-name versions of this, you should be able to find one of them for under that if this is currently at a higher price. My advice, though, is to wait until you find this, or a similar one, for between $15-25. That's in the range I paid, and I'm satisfied with that.