I am curious. Maybe I misread the OP's post, but he was seemingly bothered by the lack of dust collection on a contractor saw, and then proceeds to dig into contractors saws...
I am not sure what your budget is, but I chose the saw I did, and sacrificed a bit in the table itself (aluminum versus iron, and shallower than a standard saw) to get the dust collection and riving knife of my BT3100. Those features were and continue to be critically important to me.
If I had it to do over again, I would still not chose a contractor saw due to the lack of both of these features. But rather I would plunk money aside for a hybrid or cabinet saw with a riving knife...
NOW, having said that, I understand that the **** is on the market, and there are ways to mostly enclose a contractor saw cabinet for dust collection, and THAT would get me looking at a contractor saw for sure. And IF I could address those 2 major issues, I would be well on my way to looking into one of the Emmerson / Ryobi TTI built contractor saws...
Trying to follow the example of the master...